A. F. Cano wrote: > 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. > >
# xset fp rehash "Causes the server to reread the font databases in the current font path. Usually used only when adding new fonts to a font directory after running mkfontdir to recreate the font database." http://tinyurl.com/9krfeb best of luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
