Re: MetroX on a Dell XPi

[Scot Needy <sneedy infi net>]

FYI: I got Accelerated X which has Matrox support 
     worked out of the box. I havn't looked recently but 
     last I checked this was an unsupported card to the free world
     of Linux :(  

Scot 


On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Frank Solensky wrote:

> I've got RedHat 5.0 (2.0.32) installed on a Dell Latitude XPi, 90MHz.
> Everything's OK in text mode but things get messy once I try
> running 'startx':  the screen starts off looking pretty close to
> what it should but includes random characters and a few thin vertical
> bars.  Moving the mouse causes it to jump all over the place, leaving
> droppings all over.  Text in the xterm window is legible and I can
> get out using the mouse but no text appears in these menu.
> 
> As far as I can tell, everything I could configure was set
> correctly: Dell's support page indicates that this portable has
> a Cirrus CL-GD7543 video chip w/ 1 MB ram.  The mouse is a PS/2
> compatible and I'm just trying to get just the 640x480 @ 60Hz
> display working for now; nothing fancy.
> 
> This may be a red herring but there's 25 messages in /var/log/Xerrors
> along the lines of "Symbol xx from modules yy.a is unresolved!"
> (where 'yy' is either "libextmod" or "libvga256").
> 
> Thanks in advance.				-- Frank
> 
> 
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