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In my xorg.conf file, the Section "files" is empty. According to
http://wiki.X.org/ under error faqs and under can't install default font
"fixed" in no case should this happen including debian. There's supposed
to be FontPath lines in that section. I suppose that happens when xfs is
no longer used but can't be sure. I wish whoever does software testing on
these packages would install xorg onto a desktop machine that never had it
before and go through the steps to set xwindows up and see if they can get
it to run. Some of what me and Florian Kulzer found out then might be a
little farther up on the bug fix radar. Florian Kulzer was able to
duplicate my problem with installing the SecurityPolicy file in
/etc/X11/xserver too. the option to force overwrites when doing a
reinstall of software isn't honored by xserver-xorg-core or xfonts-base.
Florian confirmed xserver-xorg-core for me but I found out about
xfonts-base last night myself. In fact what I suspect happened with
xserver-xorg-core was that the SecurityPolicy file failed to install on
initial installation for whatever reason. I have contacts I can ask to do
some research to see if they can replicate my results on another list and
will request their assistance later. What's needed are for users who have
never installed any part of the xorg environment on their debian boxes to
use tasksel and install the desktop environment and then try to get it
working. The speakup mailing list has a few debian users who would
qualify for this kind of research but likely debian-user does not. I want
to see if others who try this run into the same difficulties I have to
date and if so, then pre-release software testing could use some
improvements somewhere along the line. I've been told by a professional
sysadmin that X is very temperamental and he had lots of problems with it
over on sgi machines too so I'm not entirely surprised these kind of
failures happen over here. However, having to write this kind of email if
it fails to produce improvements is what will preserve Microsoft's Windows
market share for many generations to come since xwindows will be in no
position to endanger that market share.
- xorg.conf variance Jude DaShiell
- Re: xorg.conf variance Mumia W..
