Comment 9 for bug 388368

You might be using the last officially-released version of pterm. It does have support for client-side fonts in the version I'm using (from svn; they need to get round to making a release); I'm just used to server-side fonts and haven't got round to changing over yet.

If missing agpgart is the problem, then I suspect that it might actually be more directly the fault of my /etc/modules, which had 'i915 modeset=1' but no drm or agpgart. I've adjusted this per some more current directions in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting, and will give that a go at my next reboot. Thanks!