Re: SOLVED: RE: Scrollbars in xterm and nxterm
Johan Groth (jgroth@xpress.se)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:53:59 -0000 ()
On 31-Jul-98 Maury Merkin wrote:
> You might want to check and see if you have the latest XFree
> distribution. They have support for many new graphics cards and Red
> Hat
> no longer (with RH 5.1) bundles MetroX so, if you want to upgrade you
> could be in for a (minor) surprise there.
>
> Maury
>
But I have the latest XFree distribution (3.3.2) and Red Hat 5.0 and
5.1 so I also have MetroX. I didn't know that 5.1 wasn't bundled with
MetroX though. I bought 5.1 from linuxcenter for $1.95 so all commercial
programs had been removed, so to speak.
The problem I had with XFree is the X-server XF_SVGA, which contains
Matrox support *among* other things as standard SVGA and VGA support.
So when I tried to start X with startx -- -bpp 32 it failed and
defaulted to 320x200x4. I could never figure out how to make the
XF86Config-file to accept that I had a Matrox in my machine and not a
VGA-card so I switched to MetroX instead. I will probably buy
Accelerated-X from Xi Graphics later as I used that server in CDE and
was very satisfied with it. I don't think version 2.1 of Accelerated-X
is compatible with Red Hat 5.1 (glibc, you know).
But this is a list about AfterStep so any comments about X-servers in
general, please send mail to me and not the list.
///Johan
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