On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:46:12AM +0200, José L. Ayala wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and > I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm > because characters are displayed as "little squares"; the same happens in > gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and I even > tried the gtf tool to calculate the refreshment frequencies for the monitor, > but nothing worked. I also tried the "stable" version of xserver-xorg but, > in that case, the X environment didn't work. For your information, my > graphics card is an intel one.
Your problems seems to be rather font(s) related. Please post the output of dpkg -l *font* With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See mine (BTW, I also use intel): ,----[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] | [sniped comments] | | Section "InputDevice" | Identifier "Generic Keyboard" | Driver "kbd" | Option "XkbRules" "xorg" | Option "XkbModel" "pc105" | Option "XkbLayout" "ro,us,de" | Option "XkbVariant" "comma,," | Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alts_toggle" | EndSection | | Section "InputDevice" | Identifier "Configured Mouse" | Driver "mouse" | EndSection | | Section "Device" | Identifier "Configured Video Device" | EndSection | | Section "Monitor" | Identifier "LVDS" | # i think without this the dpi is set to 96 but my laptop has 85 | DisplaySize 305 228 | EndSection | | Section "Monitor" | Identifier "Configured Monitor" | Option "Ignore" "true" | EndSection | | Section "Screen" | Identifier "Default Screen" | Monitor "Configured Monitor" | EndSection `---- Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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