Hi, I recently upgraded the linux half of a friends' dual-boot box from RH 6.0 to Debian potato (2.2r2) (actually looked over her shoulder while she did it so that she'd get the experience and be more comfortable with Debian in the future).
Primary problem I encountered: X-Windows garbles all the fonts it uses, to make it unreadable. I'm not only talking about fonts in a given xterm (which one often encounters after, e.g., viewing a binary file with more), it garbles menu-items, words in xdm's login screen, title-bars, etc in addition to all fonts in xterms. I installed X through tasksel, used the svga server, installed both 75dpi and 100dpi fonts (though tried it again with only 75dpi with same problem). System video card is S3 Trio64 (764), but xfree86's S3 accelerated server doesn't work at all when I tried it, and anXious identifies the server for the card at SVGA by default, so I would think that would be safe. Suggestions much appreciated. I'd be happy to supply any additional info needed. Thanks so much and happy new year, Daniel PS. Strange sidenote: surprisingly, though this never occured in RH6.0, something weirdly similar occurs for her in Win95, where all fonts are garbled until one exits to DOS, exits back to Win95 and fonts are restored. Hmm... I checked BIOS for some system-wide misconfiguration, but no joy. -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
