Debian: I like it :)

[James Colannino]

I know for a fact that the font server is running, so I think you're 
right.  It was complaining because the font paths were messed up.  It 
asked me earlier if I wanted to install the Microsoft standard true type 
fonts and I said no because I didn't have them off hand to install with 
the system.  I thought that the X packages on Debian would install some 
fonts to use regardless, but should I go back and install them?

James

Mike Coleman wrote:

>James,
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>The "something"s that you are omitting are probably important.  The X server
>won't abort just because it can't find a font server on port 7000 (I think).
>It will abort if it can't find the font 'fixed', if I recall correctly, so if
>your font paths are totally screwed up, that could cause the problem.
>
>Mike
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>James Colannino <email2jamez at covad.net> writes:
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>>I got it to start working.  Now I have another problem.  It starts loading
>>KDE, then the X server aborts suddenly in the middle of loading the Window
>>Manager.  When I read the output to tty1, it said something to the effect of:
>>
>>(something about fonts) unix:7000 Font (something) not found!
>>Exiting on Signal 11, X Server aborted
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>>That is nothing like what it actually said, but I hope what I typed includes
>>the most important elements.  Any ideas?
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>>James
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>>Don Erickson wrote:
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>>>In article <3E8DF88C.6010107 at covad.net> you write:
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>>>>1) When I tried to 'startx,' I got the error, "No screens found."  I
>>>>installed KDE and Gnome, and I ran multiple methods of configuring X, but
>>>>to no avail.  What's going wrong?
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>>>In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, X isn't finding a screen configuration that it
>>>can use.  There's a "Screens" section in there with resolutions and color
>>>depths.  It's been a while since I installed a debian distribution, which
>>>X configure methods did you use?
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>>>>2) It installed KDE 2.2.2.  That is extremely old.  I know they have a rep
>>>>for being stable and that there is a reason, but how would I go about
>>>>updating to a Debian-specific version of KDE 3.1?  Likewise, I would also
>>>>like to upgrade GNOME.
>>>>
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>>>Well, include this line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
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>>>deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
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>>>Then, run the commands "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get install
>>>kdebase".  This will get you started.
>>>
>>>Oh, and have a wide pipe.
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>-Don
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