I fixed the font problem by removing and purging everything X and starting
over.
Then the next problem was that it would say it couldn't find RGB_DB. I
found that there was a link to /etc/X11/rgb.txt in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, but the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt doesn't exist.
So, I searched the mail archives and I find that I have the same experience
as someone else.
I tried:
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
apt-get install --reinstall xfree86-common
and it puts the link back but doesn't copy the file into /etc/X11
So, I downloaded the package, extracted the files and put rgb.txt into
/etc/X11 manually.
Is that a bug?
Now I just have to figure out why I have a giant green rectangle on the
screen all the time (I'm using the nvidia drivers). I had fixed that before
by adding a vga= line to my lilo.conf file. Maybe I'll try taking the vga=
line out...
