Quoting Bob Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I had the problem quoted below on the 430CDT after the base installation. I
> tried the apt-get statement cited in this email response--apt said the
> task-x-window-system-core was installed. I did apt-cache show to see if
> there were fixed fonts of any description on the machine and there were
> not. I also did a find with the same result. So I did apt-get update, then
> tried apt-cache show again. Nothing. I tried apt-get search xfonts* and
> still came up with nothing. Nichego. Nada.
A lot of these general error messages from X can be quite misleading,
as they describe symptoms, not causes.
> Today or tomorrow I will try RH7. That one, RH7, installed without a hitch
> on my home machine. Why is that? Why should one distribution install and
> another one will not? I presented my problems to this list and got some
> well-thought-out responses, but they didn't help.
Unfortunately it seems common for people to select their distribution
on the basis that it happens to install hitch-free; not the best in
my opinion.
Unix/Linux installation and maintenance are not on my resume. I have the greatest respect for a good sysadmin, but my line is designing and writing software; after that comes learning sysadmin tasks well enough to keep myself out of dire trouble and to help me understand how I can make my software work better on a given machine.
With that in mind, and also keeping in view the fact that all the Linux distributions are still Linux from where I sit, religious zeal about distributions gets in the way. I started out with Linux as a means to learn Unix and it is working very well.
All I want from the portable is to write documentation and to check mail upon occasion. It is slower than most glaciers running $slothware (Micro$loth), but is pretty quick on its feet running Linux, wm and--believe it or not--StarOffice 5.2. All right, SO is a little pokey, but overall everything works better than it did under Win98 or Win95.
As for XF86Config, nothing in the file references fixed fonts. Not in startx of any of the .X* files in the system directories. The fixed ref is in the XF86_SVGA server (# strings XF86_SVGA shows the string "fixed" in a couple of places), so I have to find another one of those before I can get any distro to work.
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