One final but important question related to this thread: how is it intended by the Debian Team to configure X-4 on a PC? During the installation of it I was not asked to configure anything for X.
Any help? Thanks in advance, Lukas PS: I know of the command-line tool xf86config. On Thu, 17 May 2001, Lukas Ruf wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > > Okay, now down to the desperate nitty-gritty. Please check your fonts.alias > > file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc for the "fixed" alias. Then check > > that the expansion (e.g. > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1) exists in > > fonts.dir. Then check that the file it refers to (e.g. > > 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz) > > also exists and is not damaged (e.g. copy it somewhere else and gunzip; the > > CRC checking will croak if something went wrong). > > > Here we are!!!! Thanks very much. > > But still, probably someone has an idea what went wrong: > - I had an empty misc/fonts.alias > - when I run update-fonts-alias on misc, a file called > misc/fonts.alias.update-new was created -- but empty. > > => I copied the fonts.alias from my up and running laptop > XFree-installation and now it runs. > > Nonetheless, I would be very interested in knowing why the f... > update-fonts-alias failed -- or what I made wrong. > > Thanks for all your help!!! Thanks to all of you. > > Lukas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lukas Ruf Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Office: ETZ-G61.2 Computer Engineering and Phone: +41/1/632 7312 Networks Laboratory (TIK) Fax: +41/1/632 1035 ETH Zentrum PGP 2.6: ID D20BA2ED; Gloriastr. 35 Fingerprint 6323 B9BC 9C8E 6563 B477 BADD FEA6 E6B7 CH-8092 Zurich
