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Re: Metro X and X problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathaniel Haggard)
Tue Nov 26 16:26:40 1996

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:05:52 -0700
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From: Nathaniel Haggard <nate@wordplace.com>
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At 08:39 PM 11/24/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Zero ToL wrote:
>> I just installed RH linux 4.0 and Metro X. I setup metro X with configX 
>> and then I ran X. The screen blanks out and then stalls. I waited 7 hours 
>> for it to run and nothing happened. After I reebooted I check the Xerrors 
>> file but it said nothing about the crash.  Any help is thanked.
>Sounds as if you are setting it up for the wrong monitor.  Try other
>ones. What is your monitor?  Also, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will put you
>back at the console so you can try again.
>
I have the same probelm except more sporadicly. One out of every four times
when I run Metro X the screen just goes blank. It usually works again when I
reboot. Maybe it's a bug?


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