"Collin Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian upgraded X without my desire to do so but after a few struggles I have > it all working. Only problem so far is that it seems some fonts are > corrupt/missing and I have no idea how to find out which ones. This > screenshot ( http://www3.telus.net/cadiolis/fonts_screenie.jpg ) shows the > problem in gtop and dselect. It only happens in dselect when running it from > a terminal window in X, not running from a true prompt without X. I think > this may be the cause of X crashing on me in a few apps (staroffice and > netscrape) with a signal 11. The log file is not to helpful in these crashes > so I wish to fix the font problem and see if that fixes the crashes.
Well, from the screenshot, it looks like you have many broken packages, including task-x-window-system and task-x-window-system-core. Do an "apt-get install task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core", and see if that makes any difference. Just off-hand, it looks like you're missing some variation on the fixed font. Also, I've had some problems with the font server. You may want to try killing it (do "/etc/init.d/xfs stop" -- it may be `xfs' if you have one of the TrueType servers installed), and running X without it. > While I'm writing this I may as well as about performance. Quake 3 runs at > about the same frames per second under X4 but seems to have a 'twitch' in it > every few seconds. Any thoughts on this? I've read that X requires kernel > 2.2.18 pre? or 2.4 to run DRI properly. Is this true? I've heard that too. I'm pretty sure it's true. Hubert
