I used to be using the fonts package that came with the XFree86 4 binary distribution, but after upgrading to the most recent XFree86 package in sid (4.0.2-4), X refused to start, on account of not having the "fixed" font.
I checked it out, and the font was installed! I've never had that error before either, but X was refusing to start, so I decided to humour it and install the Debian xfonts packages instead. To my chagrin, as soon as I entered X, I noticed that every font was way too big! They were all at least twice as big. I'm trying to figure out whether this is an mkfontdir problem (which got changed recently when it was removed from the xbase-clients package), or something in the X11 settings. I'm not sure, since I don't know enough about X11 fonts; I've always kinda taken them for granted. They've always just BEEN there, you know? :) Anyhow, any help would be appreciated. -- Chris
