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

[Aaron Bockover]

I did not install x-window-system. I was hoping to do a full from-source
build of X, not an apt-get install. My reason for this being more out of
curiosity than ease of installation.

I guess my ultimate goal is just to upgrade to 4.3 from whatever is
offered on the Debian 3.0r1 CD 1 ISO (4.2?), but I figured I'd try and
have some fun :-)

Thanks,
Aaron

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:31, 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.
> 
> -- 
> We put a lot of thought into our defaults.  We like them.  If we
> didn't, we would have made something else be the default.  So keep
> your cotton-pickin' hands off our defaults.  Don't touch.  Consider
> them mandatory.  "Mandatory defaults" has a nice ring to it.