[K12OSN] LTS.CONF Intel Video Configuration Help

[jam at mcquil.com]

Joe,

Please fix your address book so that your entry for the 
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Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Joe Faletra wrote:

> "A technical support and discussion community for users of the K12OS 
> Linux distribution." <k12osn at redhat.com> writes:
> >On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Joe Faletra wrote:
> >
> >> Help me before I hang myself!
> >> 
> >> I created a boot floppy for a Dell optiplex GX260  (AMEN
> >Rom-o-matix).
> >> Anyway, THe boot floppy works great, when it gets to the video I get
> >> the following error:
> >> 
> >> ERROR: Auto probe of the video card failed!  You need to specify the
> >> proper X Server in lts.conf.
> >> 
> >> I went to LTS.CONF and there doesn't seem to be any default setting
> >for
> >> The Intel 82845G video card.  It is an on board card.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas on what to do?
> >
> >Use the VESA driver ?
> >
> >try "lspci", "lspci -n" and see if there is anything close in
> >
> >/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/vidlist ?
> >
> >Cheers,    Andy!
> 
> Andy,
> 
> Being a linux NEWBIE I am not totally sure what you mean.  Do you mean
> try modifying lts.conf
> 
> XSERVER = lspci
> 
> Joe
> 
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