Hi!

I've recently tried to install and set up Debian Linux. At first I tried Woody but I soon realized that it was very difficult to configure without having a working network connection (nforce2 board...). So I installed the newest Knoppix distribution (3.3) to my harddisk.

I guess I almost got the onboard nic drivers to work, but when I tried to start netcardconfig, I got strange error messages about having wrong fonts and so I can't set up my netcard.
These messages also occur when trying to start emacs (X version) or other programs that communicate with the X server.

I'll put out the messages at the end of this post along with my XF86Config-4 file, as I already googled to solve this problem and found some "solutions" that invoked changing the XF86Config-4 file.

I really hope somebody can help me, as I'm a Linux noob, but am pretty impressed by this OS (especially the debian distros).

Thanks in advance,

Timo

P.S.: Please excuse my english, as I only had it in school and never got to train it in reality.

/usr/bin/emacs error output:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

xfontsel error output:

Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Segmentation fault

/usr/sbin/netcardconfig error output:

The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,

-*-arial-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15,
-*-arial-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15,*-r-*" does not support all the required character sets

for the current locale "de_DE@euro"

/etc/X11/XF86Config file:

Section "Files"
# FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce4 Ti-4200"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
VideoRam 65536
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Macom S82"
HorizSync 30-60
VertRefresh 50-75
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "GeForce4 Ti-4200"
Monitor "Macom S82"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection