On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 10:37, Dave Eidson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Dave Eidson wrote: > > > Regarding the missing fixed font, it appears that update-fonts-alias > > isn't working correctly. When run, it creates a file named > > fonts.alias.update-new in the specified font dir that contains only > > the "DO NOT EDIT" messages... no alias info is created. How can I get > > around this? > > Well, I managed to get it working. No real idea what the real problem > is/was, but for anyone interested, here's what I did. > Originally, used dselect and installed x-window-system meta package, > seemed to install fine, no errors at all. But there were problems > with the font aliases, and /etc/X11 contained nothing but the expected > subdirectories and and XF86Config-4 file. Manually creating the alias > file got me past the "missing fixed font" issue, but more problems popped > up due to not having the needed files in /etc/X11 (Xsession, Xservers, > rgb.txt etc).
For the record, those files are in xfree86-common. The dependencies shouldn't allow installing xserver-xfree86 without that... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
