Re: MetroX on a Dell XPi

[Frank Solensky <solensky blaze-net com>]

> 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.

Scot Needy wrote:
> 
> 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 :(

The Red Hat 'supported hardware' page includes CL-GD7543 as a
supported video card, as does the link to the Metro-X page
('Metro-X', not 'Matrox').