Hello. A mishap with my Debian distribution has forced me to purge my x-window-system and reinstall about three times over. Each time I do so, X doesn't seem to want to use fonts. Any fonts, not for menus, not for the login window, nothing.
The mishap which caused this was me absent-mindedly allowing deselect to do what it wanted: the sources list still requested the testing distribution after Woody was released as stable, and downloaded 300+ package updates. After doing so, graphics were defunct: instead of loading into a graphical login window per KDE after booting, my monitor wheezed five times, then Linux dumped to the standard text login. My impatient solution was to rip out everything X and put it back in, with not much luck so far. I'm two steps short of reformatting this hard drive. I am now going to read through apt HOWTOs and some x-window material before doing so, and hope to have a working Linux system before I start any serious school work. I'd appreciate any suggestions, thanks. --Alexander
