[K12OSN] Making LTSP work with old Compaqs

[Doug Simpson]

try 8 bit color depth. . . that has worked for some of the compaqs I have 
used. . .

ds

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Sudev Barar wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:10, Max Anikstein wrote:
> > We just received approximately 30 Compaq Deskpro 590 computers. After
> > some messing with the boot disk, I got them to boot off the network
> > but it can’t configure the X Server. Based on some Googling it appears
> > that the computers have QVISION 1280/P Graphics chips. Is there anyway
> > to get these machines to work? Is there another X Server we can use?
> > Do we need to purchase new video cards?
> No personal experience but try setting 
> HorizSync    31.5 - 37.9
> VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
> within these ranges in your lts.conf file. I have been able to use old
> B&W monitors with this.
> Also important what is the vid memory of the cards in your machines.
> Anything below 1mb forget using 800x600 resolution. 2mb for 1024x780.
> 
> 

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Doug Simpson
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DeQueen, AR 71832
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