Re: X font "fixed" missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote:
> > Hey there!
> > 
> >  I'm new.
> > 
> >  I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on
> > Intel and Alpha platforms):
> > 
> > "Fatal server error:
> >  could not open defualt font 'fixed'
> > " 
> > 
> > I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't
> > find any mismatched dependencies.
> 
> Have you installed sufficient font packages? I am not sure the dependencies
> are ok in frozen at the moment.

They weren't a few days ago. You can install X w/o fonts or xterm.

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X font "fixed" missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

1998-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote:
> Hey there!
> 
>  I'm new.
> 
>  I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on
> Intel and Alpha platforms):
> 
> "Fatal server error:
>  could not open defualt font 'fixed'
> " 
> 
> I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't
> find any mismatched dependencies.

Have you installed sufficient font packages? I am not sure the dependencies
are ok in frozen at the moment.

Marcus

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