[K12OSN] Lingering Release Issues

[Petre Scheie]

Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Peter Hartmann wrote:
> 
>> I thought ltsp4.2 was supposed to have 7MB less residing in ram.
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Yes, in theory there should be LESS ram usage. But it was also mentioned
> that this was a fairly old server (2.5 years old)... depending on exactly
> what was installed and how it was used, it could have required less memory
> on the terminals. I did a search for the error message that was posted
> and didn't come up with anything... I just checked again and there was
> a typo in the bug report that I didn't catch (sucks being dyslexic ;-),
> I got a few hits this time.
> 
> Scott: the only errors I can find that are similar to this are for
> Alpha servers (I'm sure you are not using those for terminals!), for
> the old XFree86 3.x drivers (used 2.5 years ago, but not in K12LTSP 5),
> and one reference to the i810 problems we had in the very early betas.
> 
> The fix for the i810 chipsets in the early betas was to specify the
> vesa driver:
> 
>     XSERVER = vesa
> 
> and later we found that it worked better to remove that line and to
> specify a specific amount of memory used for video:
> 
>     XVIDRAM="VideoRam 4096"
> 
> if that *still* doesn't work, try dropping it down to 2 megs:
> 
>     XVIDRAM="VideoRam 2048"
> 
> 
> Please post your findings and if possible please post exactly what
> hardware is in the terminals that are not functioning properly.
> 
> -Eric
> 
FWIW, on my lone Compaq iPaq which has the i810 video, I have to use the XSERVER=vesa 
setting to get X to come up; using the XVIDRAM doesn't work.

Petre