[K12OSN] Weird Video

[Petre Scheie]

This is an irresponsible, anecdotal reply, but it seems to me that as X.org has evolved, 
I've had to specify VESA for the video for more and more of my older machines.  I say 
this is irresponsible because I haven't actually documented the pattern.  It just seems 
that back in the last Xfree86 days, K12LTSP 3.x, most of my old machines, which tended 
to have old video cards with just 2MB of RAM, worked without any special configuration. 
  Those same machines sometimes have had difficulty getting X to start with later 
versions of K12LTSP using X.org.  In most cases, setting the xserver to VESA fixed the 
problem, although sometimes a few more tweaks like memory size were necessary.  The i810 
video chipset is a common culprit; there's a lot of discussion in the archives about how 
to get it working.

Petre

Timothy Hart wrote:
> With teachers coming back and putting their rooms back together I am 
> finally
> able to test the classroom K12LTSP clients thoroughly.
> They are all different old boxes. On a lot of them I am now getting garbled
> video and failed xstartups. They seemed to have worked in K12LTSP 4. I
> recently updated to 5. Could this just be that I need to tell the server
> what each of these "non working" graphics card is so it will send the right
> settings? Anyone else experience similar problems?
> 
> Tim
> 
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