[K12OSN] Video Driver for Disklessworkstations.com 1220/1225

[Lewis Holcroft]

Nils,
On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Nils Breunese wrote:

> Lewis Holcroft wrote:
>
>> I have checked and the unit boots and errors out on the video  
>> driver. It defaults to vesa, which is fine.
>
> Why do you think vesa is fine? If it were, then why would you need  
> to install a custom VIA driver?
>
It's fine because the screen with draw and the end user can use the  
system. I would like the correct driver so that screen redraws are  
optimized. My users are not picky (they were previously using IBM3151  
terminals), but I would like their experience to be a good one.

>> I was going to add the driver. I have done it once with LTSP, but  
>> not K12LTSP. the process while vague does work. I was just hoping  
>> to save myself some time and check first.
>
> If the unit erros out on the video driver, then I guess this custom  
> driver really is needed. Maybe if could be incorporated into an  
> K12LTSP update.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better.... So I installed  
Linux.