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Re: Metro X

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter A. Koren)
Sat Oct 26 08:35:47 1996

Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 07:34:04 -0500
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From: pkoren@sm1.gte.net (Peter A. Koren)
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961024113301.560F-100000@home.cyberhighway.net>, 
toddw@cyberhighway.net says...
>
>
>> When I installed Metro X during RedHat 4.0 installation X did not run . I 
get a message Driver is missing.
>> I looked into the configuration file and I found it ha IBM and the Diamond 
Stealth 64 Video VRAM that I selected during installation. 
>> Did anyone had this problem?
>> 
>
>I have Stealth 3240XL video vram as well.  I didn't have this problem, but
>MetroX won't run in 32 bit color for me.  XF86 is fine in 32 bit.  Metro
>tells me in /var/log/Xerrors that I don't have enough memory to run either
>640x480 or 800x600, but I have enough to run both these resolutions in all
>other OS's and in XF86 :)
>
>You may want to try XF86 instead.
>
>

For me, with an ATI mach32, MetroX crashes regularly, but XF86 is so far 
working OK.

Pete Koren
pkoren@gte.net


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