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

[David Whiteley]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 14:27 +0000, Jason Lander wrote:
> 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
> 
I do find that the Debian installer is not too good at getting the
correct keyboard layout and screen resolution.  I often have to tweak
the config file.

Dave
 




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