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

Faheem Mitha faheem at email.unc.edu
Sun Aug 24 19:45:05 EDT 2003



On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 7:26 PM, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Did you install "x-window-system" ?  I believe it's a meta-package
> that's supposed to install everything you need for xfree86 on debian.

If you are asking me, I do usually install x-window-system, but not from a
Woody backport. I've never done a backport of X 4.3 to woody. I'm
currently using X 4.2 on sarge.

                                                               Faheem.




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