Laptop

[glenn at aoi.ultranet.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

Beware - at the last Installfest, Ron Boudreau brought a labtop and was trying
to get the Xi Graphics server to work with RedHat 5.0.  It didn't work right 
out of the box - the Xi Graphics updated some of the X11 libraries, but not
all, and left an inconsistent set.  

He later reported that the Xi Graphics server worked OK with RedHat 4.2.

> The neomagic video chipset is not supported by XFree86 or MetroX, due to
> NeoMagic's policy of not allowing public disclosure of thair hardware's
> technical specifications. I believe Xi Graphics sells a commercial X
> server that supports the neomagic hardware; last I heard, it was selling
> for about $200.
> 
> On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Wayne Nakata wrote:
> 
> > I loaded 5.0 onto my compaq 1621 but can't get Xwindows to run. unable to
> > connect to server. It uses a neomagic video chip and I have tried vga16 etc
> > no luck, I even tried metroX. That works on my stealth card. Any ideas as
> > to how I can get xwin to work on this laptop? I would really like to run
> > LINUX on this machine. Thanks
> > Wayne Nakata
> > PictureTel Corp
> > Conference Support Engineer
> > Office: 978-292-7548
> > Home: 978-521-9737
> > Fax:	978-521-2539
> > Cell:	978-807-1604
> > 
> > 
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nakataw
> > 
> 
> --
> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
> Email: jabr at blu.org / URL: http://www.blu.org
> Unix Systems Administrator, Polaroid / abreauj at polaroid.com
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