Re: help... X-Server crashed after update

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

Laszlo Acs wrote:
> Sure seems to be alot of empty font dirs...  and, not only that...  all 
> 100dpi and 75dpi font sets are empty AFTER reinstall!???!!!

Yup, something is definitely up.  Do a "dpkg --listfiles xfonts-75dpi" 
and see if the font files are in the package, and then a "ls 
/usr/share/fonts/X11/{75,100}dpi" to see if they actually got on the system.

Don't want to be insulting, but... you did check that you're not out of 
disk space?  Just a thought.

> so, just for grins, I try
>   $ startx
> and crash with the same errors - same missing "fixed" font
> 
> Then, I looked up the 'xorg ati' driver Jeff suggested I try...  and 
> found it's embedded within the xserver-xorg-video-ati and 
> xserver-xorg-driver-ati packages.  So...

If you're getting to the message about fonts, chances are that X is 
finding *some* kind of driver.  It should report which driver in the 
Xorg log.  The proprietary X driver is "fglrx", and the free drivers are 
"ati", "r128", or "radeon".

My guess is that you need to fix the font issue first.


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