[Gllug] Matrox P650, FC5, Gnome screwed

[Ken Smith]

I've been setting up a FC5 system that has a Matrox P650 video card. It 
works reasonably well in RL5 with the vesa driver that installs by 
default. Thinking I'd try out the Matrox driver, I downloaded it and ran 
its setup. After finding/sorting a few broken links on this machine it 
built fine and works the X display. ctl-alt-f1 works properly BUT the 
Metacity Window Manager in Gnome is trashed. Gnome spends 5-10 minutes 
starting and then runs without a window manager. KDE works fine. I have 
re-installed metacity to no effect. Gnome complains about loads of 
library's missing when running startx from RL3. So it looks like the 
Matpox proprierary driver thingy takes an axe to the system and 
certainly kills Gnome. I've run the Matrox de-install and put the 
xorg.conf back to the original.

So how to fix? Any Gnome experts among us or is it quicker to fdisk and 
start again.....

Thanks in advance

Ken



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