[K12OSN] video trouble running X with IBM Thinkpad R31 thin clients

[Daniel Howard]

Thanks Petre, I'll eagerly await it!  No advice on the video issue...?  
Daniel


Peter Scheie wrote:
> Daniel,
> I've been helping Robert with some of the underlying pieces necessary 
> for fl_tt to work on K12Linux.  I think we've got most of them 
> working, but not quite all, and nothing packaged up yet nor recipes 
> written.  Robert, of course, can give a more definitive status report, 
> but I'd say we're still a few weeks away.  We can see the finish line, 
> but we're not there yet.
>
> Peter
>
> Daniel Howard wrote:
>> I'm setting up a 1:1 english/language arts classroom with K12Linux 
>> using a bunch of these laptops.  Unfortunately my old trick of adding 
>> XSERVER=VESA to LTS.CONF didn't work in K12Linux like it did in 
>> K12LTSP for them; I get the blue background and the login box, but no 
>> graphics and I can't enter the text into the box either, so after 
>> trying XSERVER=i810, and a few other options to no avail, I did some 
>> googling,  and discovered that others have had issues with this, 
>> something about the i810 drivers not working/being buggy in the 
>> latest version of LTSP.   I put Xubuntu 9.04 on one laptop as a test 
>> and it worked just fine.  Does anyone know of new info on how to get 
>> thin clients with this Intel video chip?  Can I look at something on 
>> the Xubuntu laptop (the xorg.conf file?) that I set up in order to 
>> divine a custom setup for K12Linux, and if so how?
>>
>> Also, I was hoping to use FL_TeacherTool on this classroom server, is 
>> it ready yet?  Saw several posts by maestro Arkiletian that one was 
>> in the oven...
>>
>> Best, Daniel
>>
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