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Re: 4.0 & MetroX on new (re)install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pom)
Mon Nov 4 14:43:58 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:45:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Pom <pom@spiritone.com>
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Hey hey...
Well I have a 4meg Matrox MGA Mill card as well and for some
reason the only screen option I can use is the 800x600, if
I go higher than that I get what looks like water running
down my screen. I am using a Vivitron 17" (1776) monitor as
well. In Win95 I can go up to 1280x1024 in 16bit color just
fine. MetroX I dont think is all that good, a substandered
product. Soon as Mr. Clause comes a calling I will make sure
he leaves the newest ver of Accel. X under my tree.
Dave
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Rick Forrester wrote:
>
> Shifting partitions around this weekend, decided to reinstall Red Hat
> 4.0. One of the reasons for shifting around was purchase of new MGA
> Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card.
>
> On my previous install I had problems with MetroX; I finally gave up &
> just loaded XFree86 v3.1.2G, which suited my ATI Graphics Xpression
> CT264 card just fine. With the Matrox card I don't have that option.
> Two points came up right away:
>
> 1. Can someone point me to where the documentation on what driver the
> X link is supposed to point to? As it was installed (twice), it seems
> to point to never-never land, and I don't seem to have much luck
> locating documentation. And, yes, I have the official version, with
> manual.
>
> 2. When trying to configure the card in the first place, the best
> options MetroX seems to give is for 1024X768 resolution @ 70Hz. Did I
> miss something? My other installation, with AcceleratedX installed,
> supports up to 1600x1200 at a faster refresh rate. Should be able to
> do better than 1024X768 with a 4Mb Matrox Millenium card and a
> Viewsonic PT770 17" monitor.
>
> 3. No, I'd prefer not, for now, to install AcceleratedX with RH 4.0.
> I'm stubborn, I'd like to get what I paid for working as well as
> possible. 8^)
>
> TIA
>
> Rick F.
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