[K12OSN] Re: eMac video driver question

[William Fragakis]

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:

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> 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
>
>