[TriLUG] XFree86 problem on Debian: "Could not open default font 'fixed'"

Faheem Mitha faheem at email.unc.edu
Sun Aug 24 19:26:18 EDT 2003



On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Aaron Bockover wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently compiled XFree86 4.3.0.1 on Debian. The build went rather
> smoothly, with a few minor dependency problems, but those were easy to
> resolve. Once installed, I set up a basic XF86Config file, but am
> getting the following error when trying to start X (through startx, and
> xinit).

This doesn't answer your question, but would it not be easier to use a X
4.3 backport to stable? Checking with apt-get.org shows a couple of
sources.

                                                                  Faheem.





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