Quote Originally Posted by Hsu
I tried using apt to reinstall them. It's not that the fonts aren't there, it's that my font cache file for X11 became messed up, so it doesn't know where to look for the fonts. My research has gotten that far, but I haven't found out how to fix it.
Can't you edit your xorg.conf file to check that it has the right folder paths?
Also, could you link to the guide you used to try to install the TTF? Maybe we'll find what step in it caused your problem.