Hi, I'm now fine tuning a brand new Lenny install on a clean disk. It came up great out of the original installation with the non-accelerated nvidia driver: it just worked with the WUXGA (1920 X 1200) display. In previous releases the config files (XFree and xorg) required tweaking. I then installed all the fonts I could find with aptitude. No problems with that either.
Then I installed the binary nvidia driver (legacy96xx) which is the suitable one for the Go 4200 chip. I had been running the binary driver on Etch and even earlier and the xorg.conf file had some manual tweaks in it. A diff with the original xorg.conf showed almost no difference, so I just copied the old xorg.conf (after backing up the debian installed one of course). BIG MISTAKE! I had overlooked some old font paths in the customized xorg.conf that messed up all the fonts on the display. Everything is way too big now, including the password field in kdm (I use KDE), everything displayed in the status bar is too big, the font in the konsoles is way too big. Of course, the first thing I did was to comment all the font lines out of the xorg.conf, but that didn't do a thing, even after turning the machine off and rebooting. How can I get the original fonts back? I didn't find an obvious command to clear the font cache and a google search turned up lots of pages on how to install and configure fonts, but no answer to this problem. Help! Trying to get rid of too-big fonts... Thanks. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
