[K12OSN] Re: eMac video driver question

[Joe Guenther]

I would also agree.  The eMacs are much to valuable machines to just 
have as thin clients. One can use any old clunker for that, but an eMac 
is about a 2.4Ghz processor. They make great video editing machines. Let 
the students loose on iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD and without much 
instruction those kids will produce fantastic stuff - stuff you CANNOT 
do on a thin client attached to LTSP.  I would collect any old PII/PIII 
or less and connect that to the LTSP, but leave the eMacs as stand alone 
workstations configuring them to connect to the Samba file shares on the 
LTSP server. They will do that very easily.  When on the desktop hit 
Apple-K to connect ... type in the IP address of your file server.  Make 
the connection.  Make an alias of the connection it created on the 
desktop. Clik on that alias and hit Apple-I (info) lock that alias so it 
cannot easily be deleted. Leave it on the desktop for any student to 
login and save their work to the server.  Much to simple, much to 
elegant, much to powerful to use as a thin client.

greetings
Joe Guenther

William Fragakis wrote:
> Not that I don't love K12LTSP...
>
> (and not that I don't have a 1ghz eMac overclocked to 1.4 ;-)  )
>
> the old CRT imacs should be "clientized" (and not that I'm not typing 
> on a G3 400 imac at the moment, either)
>
> but some of the eMacs may be of great use as video/music stations with 
> Garage Band, iMovie, etc. We'd love to have a couple of eMacs 
> ourselves to do this on but funds don't permit it. It may make much 
> more sense to use them that way than something equivalent to an old 
> Dell Optiplex.  If you are absolutely strapped for funds or donated 
> PCs, I'm sure they'd make great clients in the all in one form factor. 
> But they do other things extremely well, too.
>
> regards,
> William
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:00 PM, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:04:49 -0600
>> From: Barry Cisna <cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us>
>> Subject: [K12OSN] eMac video driver question
>> To: K12OSN <k12osn at redhat.com>
>> Message-ID: <1142262289.24409.15.camel at hi1.wc235.k12.il.us>
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>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> I should have made my post clearer, I guess.
>> Im trying to get the eMac's setup to be thin clients as we inherited
>> about 40 imac's, emac's as our school consolidated over this past summer
>> with another school.There is such a hodge podge of software on these
>> machines I thought turning them into K12LTSP thin clients would be a
>> good fit for these machines. they would make very nice thin client boxes
>> me thinks. We have these all located in one room and I have the imacs
>> booting up fine both Indigo & Bondi models. The emacs will boot fine but
>> fail at the Xserver:(. Id like to get the emacs working as well so that
>> room would be 100% K12LTSP, which would be a good selling point/pitch
>> for K12LTSP at our school.What i was wanting to find out was what video
>> driver Linux id's the video card as in eMac's through a hard drive
>> install. Then I can possibly cobble up something in a new
>> XF86Config-4.emac file that relates to a "hard drive" install of Linux.
>>> From what ive read on emac spec sheets is the emacs have an ati Radeon
>> 7200, 9600 something. I'm not really at all familiar with mac stuff,,or
>> i should say fairly new Mac stuff. I guess i could look in the Mac
>> control panel thingie but i thought an actual hard drive install of
>> Linux on these would be a more accurate driver config ,as far as making
>> the XF86Config file work.
>> Does this make sense?
>> We are using K12LTSP 4.2.0 and Ive added the PPC rpm to it.
>>
>> Take Care,
>>
>> Barry Cisna
>>
>>
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