Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and linux, so may have made some poor decisions during the upgrade. The xfs font server I

Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched

2007-04-05 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them manually with /etc/init.d/. Other TCP services like SSH and MySQL listener fir

Noobe XDM questions

2007-04-02 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Kinda new to Debian, and Linux, so forgive me if this has been covered to death already, but the docs suggest that users can customize an X session simply by placing the '.xsession' file into their home directory. This is not working for me; adding an .xsession file to my home directory simply