As suggested by Vincent Bernat, I've tried starting the 2002.11.06-2 version of xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk using just "X". This produced the same stippled background overlaid by diagonal bands of color that I saw earlier, but (unlike with calling startx) did not crash right away. Running "DISPLAY=:0.0 mozilla" caused an X crash, but "DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm" doesn't. Unfortunately, the display is still garbled, so that the xterm is not visible except as a mess smeared across the entire top half of the display. So I think there is a deeper problem here than just a font issue.
I've just tried with the latest package, the 2002.12.05-1 version, but that does not start up at all, not even producing a garbled display. So I am still sticking with 2002.10.06-2 for now :-( Any other suggestions? -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544
