Do you have xutils installed? If not, you may need to install it and run mkfontdir manually in each font directory (or "dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-100dpi ...").
> I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. > When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and > xfonts-scalable. Any clues what I'm missing? > > Thanks, > > Gerry