[K12OSN] Video Cards

[Scott Sherrill]

Thanks Jim - going to check it out.  I checked and I am running 
Eric's  rpm ltsp_kernel_i386-3.0-13.k12ltsp.1.4.0

Between 3.0.15 and my newly downloaded isos of 4.1 I should be in business.


Thanks again,

Scott

>Scott,
>
>The 2.4.24-ltsp-1 kernel had lots of problems with trident.  That's
>because I included the "experimental" support for tridentfb in that
>kernel.
>
>Quite a while ago, I released 2.4.24-ltsp-4, which is in the
>ltsp_kernel-3.0.15 package on the ltsp.org download page.
>
>That fixed the problem with trident video.
>
>I'm pretty sure that eric also released an update to fix it.
>
>Jim McQuillan
>jam at Ltsp.org
>
>
>
>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Scott Sherrill wrote:
>
>>  >Can anyone recommend a good, dependable, and preferably cheap video
>>  >card known to work well with K12LTSP?  I've got a bunch of old PCs
>>  >laying around that I'd like to turn into thin clients, but the
>>  >installed Trident 9660 video cards don't work.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>  We are having trouble with Trident 9680s too.  They worked great with
>>  the K12LTSP 3.1 and the 2.4.21 client kernel but they flake out big
>>  time with the client kernel 2.4.24 kernel under 4.0.1.
>>
>>  What happens for me the kernel downloads no problem but right after
>>  it uncompresses the kernel and checks the video card the screen won't
>>  sync.   It all happens long before it tries to start Xwindows.
>>
>>  Is that what you are seeing or is it flaking out at the very last
>>  step when it tries to run Xwindows?
>>
>>
>>  Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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