On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: > Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following > the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work > very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and > linux, so may have made some poor decisions during the upgrade. > > The xfs font server I had running in Sarge now refuses to run and the > log file is empty. > > I made sure my "Files" list in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file matched the > list in the /etc/X11/fs/config file and my /etc/X11/fs/config file is > set to send errors to the /var/log/xfs.log file. Beyond that I'm not > sure what else I can do to troubleshoot this. > > Any help would be appreciated,
At this point, the font server is not needed anymore. As long as you have fontconfig and the set of fonts by default. dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Then restart "X", as long you have the files list in the config (which the defaults are very good) it works. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]