[1734] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Metro-X unstable and buggy (not)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Wed Oct 30 00:48:48 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 29 Oct 1996 20:01:44 +0100
In-Reply-To: Joe Klemmer's message of Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:47:36 -0500 (EST)
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Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com> writes:
> On 28 Oct 1996, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> FWIW, MetroX has worked for me better than XFree.
Not with #9 Imagine 128. The "support" in MetroX for this is utterly
unusable (and yes- I've tried a clean install on a sepatae partition
with the final version). Even the betas in XFree come with less
serious bugs than this.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
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