Re: MetroX on RH Linux v4. problem when quitting

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From: Geoffrey D. Bennett
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:00

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Dale King (dalek@itwol.bhp.com.au) wrote:
: Hi all,

: I am running Red Hat Linux V4.0 out of the box (kernel 2.0.18) with the
: MetroX server on an Pentium PC and ET4000w32 display adaptor.  

You have my sympathies.  We have several of those cards here, and have
found that they are poorly supported by both Metro-X and XFree.  The
behaviours exhibited differ across each card, between working fine and
not working at all.  I have no experience with AcceleratedX.  None of
the servers support anything more than 256 colours even though the
card is capable of it.

: The problem is, when I quit a window manager (currently fvwm95), my screen
: resolution changes to something like (at a guess (400x300) and flickers
: like crazy.  It is impossible to use like this, however the system is fully
: functional (except starting X again, at which point it crashes).

I haven't seen this problem, but you might be able to use the
restoretextmode program from svgalib to help you.

Regards,
-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/

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From: g@Elizabeth.netcraft.com.au (Geoffrey D. Bennett)
Subject: Re: MetroX on RH Linux v4. problem when quitting
Date: 1996/12/11
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