Hi John! For some days i had the same problem. I made much changes of fontpackages and found by doing this the minimal required packages for the fonts that X will work : xfonts-75dpi (or 100dpi) , xfonts-base , xfonts-pex. If you have all these packages installed i can do no more for you. You should also have installed xbaseclients , xserver-common , xserver for yourvideocard and xcontrib for a working X. All this packages i had taken from Debian-2.2.0 potato. Will hope your woody is the so too.
good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: John Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 8:00 PM Subject: Help setting up X! > I was running Storm, upgraded to Woody without any problems (minus the > libc6 saga :-). However some power failures encouraged me to do a full > reiser-debian install (yes I know the disks aren't supported). I've got > a quasi functional potato box right now. My networking is set up so I > can apt-get all day long, but I need help setting up Xfree. This is one > of those things that I got spoiled on during installs. I made a backup > of my XF86Config and am using it so I know that part should be fine. > But gdm fails after several flickers. I think I have MOST of the X > related packages installd. It seems to be a problem with the > fonts/font-path (I should have all of the font packages installed). > Here is the output from a failed startx attmept... > > XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: January 8 2000 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer > than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting > problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Operating System: Linux 2.2.17pre10 i686 [ELF] > Configured drivers: > SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1): > NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2, > RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256, > GeForce DDR, Quadro, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, > ET4000W32i_rev_b, > ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, > ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, > wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, > ati, > sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597, > sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, > tvga8200lx, > tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000, > tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, > tgui9420dgi, > tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682, > tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520, > cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, > cyberblade, > clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, > clgd5430, > clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, > clgd5465, > clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, > clgd7543, > clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, > mga2064w, > mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400, > oti067, > oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, > ali2308, > ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, > ark1000pv, > ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, > AT24, > AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200, > ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, > ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct65555, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200, > ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, > i740_pci, > i810, i810-dc100, i810e, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic > (using VT number 7) > > XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values > (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings) > (**) Mouse: type: imps/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 5 > (**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5 > (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "NVIDIA Riva TNT2" > (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Dell P990" > Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" does not > exist. > Entry deleted from font path. > (**) FontPath set to > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us r/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/ X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/100dpi/,unix/:7100" > (--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Riva TNT2 rev 17, Memory @ 0xf4000000, 0xfc000000 > (--) SVGA: chipset: RIVA TNT2 > (--) SVGA: videoram: 32640k > (**) SVGA: Option "dac_8_bit" > (**) SVGA: Using 32 bpp, Depth 24, Color weight: 888 > (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 350.000 MHz > (**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 94.500 > (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 > (--) SVGA: RIVA TNT2: Using hardware cursor > (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) > (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles > (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy > (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill > (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x64 areas for pixmap caching > (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples > (--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp > "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" > keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > failed to set default font path > '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us r/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/ X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/100dpi/,unix/:7100' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I had to boot to windows to post > this, I think you understand my pain :-(. > > TIA, > > jt > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
