Re: [MLUG] Crazy X problem

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yeah I had to uninstall Wine and the freetype crap and reinstall them both
before the problems were fixed.

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Mustafa Gringo wrote:

> Uninstalling and reinstalling WINE?
> 
> On Tuesday 06 November 2001 09:19 pm, you wrote:
> > I had a similar problem with a crappy daily build of Wine but uninstalling
> > and reinstalling with a better version fixed it. That included the
> > freetype stuff.
> >
> > "The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
> > opening of new frontiers."
> >                                        -- Arthur Koestler
> >
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> > Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> > http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Mustafa Gringo wrote:
> > > When I boot my machine I normally get a graphical login with X running. 
> > > Then after login KDE loads and I'm at my desktop.  Also, other than
> > > this(which I believe I fixed last time by reinstalling X but that can be
> > > annoying) I've never had a problem with my setup before and don't really
> > > want to reinstall a distro.  Oh, and xfs runs.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 06 November 2001 08:48 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > I was installing codemaster's WINE through RPM(i've had problems
> > > > > compiling) and it said that I needed to upgrade to TrueType2.  I'm
> > > > > not really using a specific distro, but I'm using the config files
> > > > > and base system setup from Slackware 8 and the RPM collection from
> > > > > Mandrake 8, though I've changed much of it around so I don't know how
> > > > > helpful that will be.
> > > >
> > > > Why such a weird system?  It doesn't make any sense to me.  If it's
> > > > really broken, you might just want to reinstall the system with
> > > > straight Mandrake 8.1, since conflicting installs are probably the
> > > > cause of the problem.
> > > >
> > > > > I use KDE
> > > > > 2.1.1.  Oh, and my problem with true type fonts is that well...they
> > > > > don't display.  Most programs won't recognize their usage and the few
> > > > > that do try to display them just come out with unrecognizable and odd
> > > > > symbols.
> > > >
> > > > Is the fonts.dir file correct?  Try temporarily removing the directory
> > > > with all your TTF fonts from the config file and make another directory
> > > > with just the bare minimum of fonts - arial, verdana, courier new,
> > > > times new roman, and add others only if these work.  If they don't,
> > > > something is pretty screwed up with your system.  Some fonts might
> > > > prevent the fontserver from starting up. You can check if it's running
> > > > by running ps -aux.  It will show the process as xfs.  If it isn't
> > > > running, that's the problem.
> > > >
> > > > Also, is the computer in X or text mode when it boots up?  If it's in X
> > > > but it just shows an xterm, try starting kde by running startkde.  It
> > > > should start up or give you an error.  Also, what is it logged in as? 
> > > > Root?  Does it ask for a password?
> > >
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