[K12OSN] X & cirrus cards

[Chris Thomas]

Here is what I did to solve a problem I had with some
S3 and cirrus cards. But first, I'm assuming the 25%
of the computers that are having trouble all have the
same video card.

Get the pci id of one of the cirrus video cards and
edit the entry in the vidlist file. Change it to the
cirrus driver instead of whatever it says. Then you
can keep your 'XSERVER = auto' setting in the lts.conf
file.

Chris

Change the 
--- Peter Van den Wildenbergh
<pvdw at criticalcontrol.com> wrote:

> Hi :
>  
> Got some serious CIRRUS whoos...
> I know these cards are crap but I have to use them
> in +/- 25% of my clients :-(
>  
> This in my lts.conf right now :
>         XSERVER            = auto
>         X_MODE_0           = 800x600
>         X_COLOR_DEPTH      = 8
> 
> This works with 75% of my clients :-) except the
> cirrus ones...
> When I set
> XSERVER = cirrus
> The remaining 25% of my lab can work, but 75%
> hangs...
> Fatal server error 
> no screens found.
>  
> I also know that I can make an entry inside lts.conf
> per workstation.
> But this also adds a serious task to maintenance...
> I will end up with 6 or 7 LTS and 300-400 diskless
> clients who will randomly connect to one of the
> servers.
> so I want to keep things simple in lts.conf
>  
> Is there a solution?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Peter
> 
> 
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