[Wylug-help] X modes [Was: X fonts]

[Jason Lander]

Dave,

> It's as if some part of the Debian system deliberately chose to throw away my
> xorg.conf settings and substitute them with earlier ones from a dodgy
> configuration autoprobe.

That is - more or less - what the Debian X config program `dexconf' does.

The debconf database is populated - via discover, mdetect and other 
autoconfig tools - and dexconf uses the database to generate the 
XF86Config-4 file.

The Debian package should be is smart enough to compare the MD5 sum of 
your XF86Config-4 file with the one it originally created and not 
overwrite the file if it has been edited. It seems to have been 
confused....

Incidentally, your original "could not open default font 'fixed'". 
problem could be a broken fonts.alias file. If the alias for `fixed' is 
missing from

   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias

which is itself generated by the Debian font manager.

Reinstalling xfonts-base (or whatever) might rebuild the aliases.

- Jason