X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm having a rough time getting x to work in sid. My XFreelog is attached. In essence X fails to start because it cannot find a font called fixed. But thats only the symptom of the bigger problem in that there is no utility to install X. XF86Setup is missing and xf86config is just

Re: X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 05:28, Patrick Kirk escreveu: Hi all, I'm having a rough time getting x to work in sid. My XFreelog is attached. In essence X fails to start because it cannot find a font called fixed. reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base But thats only the

Re: X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base That was the firs tthing I did after searching on Google for similiar problems. No joy though. phasar:~# apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xfonts-base

Re: X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:27:08PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: ... There is a debconf thing that install a first version of XF86Config-4 And usually even the simple method choosen at install time gives you nearly correct XF86Config-4 file which just needs some fine tuning. through To do

Re: X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Loos
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 10:27, Patrick Kirk wrote: reinstall cfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-base That was the firs tthing I did after searching on Google for similiar problems. No joy though. phasar:~# apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi Reading Package

Re: X has died in sid

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Which means you din t do anything. In order to reinstall you need apt-get install --reinstall package I didn't know that..thanks. don't understand how editting it will allow me to startx. HAve I misunderstood something or missed some basic detail? This was unrelated to the fonts problem,