[K12OSN] video trouble running X with IBM Thinkpad R31 thin clients
Daniel Howard
dhhoward at comcast.net
Mon Sep 14 01:55:11 UTC 2009
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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