[1377] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Metro-X unstable and buggy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Oct 28 06:02:30 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 28 Oct 1996 11:27:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: Scott Omar Burch's message of Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:11:18 -0600 (CST)
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Scott Omar Burch <burchs@skypoint.com> writes:
> I've found Metro-X to be very unstable on my RedHat 4.0 system. I use and
> Imagine 128 (4MB up to 1600x1200) with a Sony 17sfII monitor. I have a
> Micron P166 with 32MB of RAM. I noticed that when I run programs like
> Netscape and Arena the windows are not drawn correctly; when I scroll
> blocks of white scroll outside of the main windows.
Same thing here. And lots of missing characters as well if you start
e.g. emacs. I reported the problem during the beta-period (It's
"problem P115"). They didn't do anything about it, though.
IMO, MetroX is a buggy, low quality product which should be dropped
from "Official Red Hat Linux". Preferably substituted by AcceleratedX, but
"nothing" would be better than "MetroX".
The keys don't work properly either.
> Overall I am happy with RedHat 4.0, but I need real support for my
> Number Nine card, currently XFree does not support the I-128 in
> accelerated mode.
Go for AcceleratedX. It's nice and it works. MetroX is buggy as h*,
and they don't bother at all with it.
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