[K12OSN] Issues with two terminals - xserver fails / Matrox Millenium II

[Barry Cisna]

Michael,

The way you might want to narrow it down on your clients,is to take a vid
card out of the working client,put it,into one that does not work. See if
the " non-working" client now works.There's so many varibles even from
"thought to be identical" clients. Maybe a bios setting such as PCI, auto
or manual,etc. Maybe all worked hunky/dory with FC4 but FC5 doesnt like
the bios settings of the two non working clients.Possibly irq conflict or
such( at bios level, not linux level).
If the client does work,,then you know it is the video card. possibly a
different firmware version on the non> OK>working clients. This is a bit
of a hassle i know,but at least you have eliminated one eliment from the
equation.
If the swap makes no diff check closer at bios setting pertaining to
PCI-Auto versus- manual,,and see what your working client is set to..
Also are you sure the two non-working clients are receiving the actual ip
addresss that it should have( that you assigned them in dhcp/lts.conf
files). as it boots up? You have to look quick at the first few lines of
the boot process!!! This is a possibility,in that you have a wrong
number/letter in your dhcp entrys for the two non-working clients hence
they are just using the default "auto" XSERVER setting that is entered in
the lts.conf..

This sint too scientific,,but may be worth a shot.

Let us know your progress,

Barry Cisna