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I am about to buy a laptop and one of the possibilities I am considering
is a dell latitude cpt.  In their web page dell says this machine comes
with a Neomagic MagicMedia 256 ZX with 4 MB SGRAM. Altough I looked in
Neomagic 's homepage they don't have any information on this chip. The
closest they have is the 256 AV with 2M.  Does someone knows what the
256 ZX is and, the important point, is it possible to run Xfree86 with
this chip?

Thanks for your help,

Luis Mendes

I have a Dell Lattitude A366CPi
- it has the 256 AV.

I use RH6.0 and have the following problems:
- no sound support
- distortion when enlarging Netscape to full size (allways) and problems
with Gnome Pannel when min/max ing it (sometimes)
I'm not the only one with these problems.

One commercial sound system supplier I read is concidering supporting 256
AV and I have to check if there is better commercial X server  support for
256 AV.

The 256 ZX sounds like a problem to me, it is also a combined Audio Visual
device: lobby your country Dell sales outlet to get support for your chip ?
- every little helps, and sometimes they listen :)
Dell keeps on sending out good machines but X keeps being a problem: one's
machine gets old before there is good support for the video
- I had a Neomagic Dell when there was only commercial support for the
Neomagic chip (I did buy Metro, but never got it to work ...)

As I said, Dell makes good machines, and mine is excellent running RH60,
VMWare and 16 Bit 1024 screen
- the only problem is "The Sound of Silence".

I don't think there are any h/w differences in the A366CPi but I may be
wrong.

Stu

Update on distortion note
- VMWare in full screen has never shown signs of distortion: so it may be
something to do with the X-Windows Manager (enlightenment?)

(The original post was a request for advice about which machine to buy: as yet,
after many postings, I have not received a reply for sucessfull usage with a
Dell or any other computer that uses Neomagic 256 AV where they do not have
distortion in X and have sound
- otherwise my Dell flies, also with VMWar and has not crashed yet, just no
sound yet)

Does anybody have a link to a commercial company that sells sound support
modules for Linux?

Quote:>Running a Latitude CPi D300XT with SuSE 6 with no problems
>X/KDE at 1024x768 on the LCD (I haven't set up an external screen yet).
>No distortion - KDE Ocean looks great!
>PCMCIA SCSI/3C574 ethernet/modem, Jazz drive n' CDRW on SCSI.
>Sound (MP3, WAV, straight CD all OK, don't use MIDI so I haven't
>checked) after recompiling the kernel.

>I don't think there are any h/w differences in the A366CPi but I may be
>wrong.

Can you post or mail your Xconfig86 file perhaps ?

Thanks

Neil

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Neil
ICQ  11875525 - AOL IM "imheifetz"

My original post was about the latitude CPt , not CPi.  I think this machine is
relatively new.  My original problem was related to the fact that in their specs
Dell say this laptop comes with a Neomagic MagicMedia 256 ZX with 4 Mb SGRAM (not
the 256 AV with 2M). I looked for information on the XFree FAQ and I could not
find it there. Also, strangely enough, there is no reference to this chip on
Neomagic's page. I guess this chip is new, but I expected to find some reference
to it in Neomagic's homepage.

Although I  have already decided not to buy this laptop and go instead for the
Inspiron 7k I would still like to know  if someone has any idea what this new chip
is.

All the Best

Luis