hi it seems that he 'vesa' driver in X 4.1.0 may be an option. i;ve got this working with an old SIS 6205 chipset machine today, with 2.0.9pre on RH 7.2, 3c509 card
Packaging the old X 3.x.x servers will be useful i'll put the lts.conf on my website later http://people.redhat.com/mherbert i've been 'off-project' for a while, but its still really good stuff Malcolm ------------------------------------------- Malcolm Herbert Red Hat Europe t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079 ------------------------------------------- On Monday 12 November 2001 13:45, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Marcus, > > You have two choices: > > 1) Find the XF86_SVGA binary from the old LTSP installation and copy > it to /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin > > 2) Change your 'XSERVER' line to 'XSERVER = auto' in the lts.conf file. > It will then automatically detect your video card and use the > correct driver. > This is assuming you are not using an S3 chipset, which doesn't > work with > X 4.1.0. > > Hope that helps, > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Marcus Smith wrote: > >Hi. > > > >It's Sunday night at 1:00am. I've been sitting here for that last 12 hours > > dealing with a botched RedHat 7.2 upgrade and I'm getting quite loopy. I > > have RedHat 7.2 functioning now and I thought I'd take the time to > > upgrade the LTSP software to 2.09pre4. > > > >After a few bumps and bruises I have it mostly working except that at the > > point where the workstation wants to start X it gives me this error: > > > >Building the start_ws script > >Starting syslogd > >/tmp/start_ws: /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA: No such file or directory > > > >It repeats the last line continuously not finding what it's looking for. I > > never had this problem with the old version, so I'm not sure what to do > > and I'm dreading what happens when my users begin to show up in 6 hours. > > My guess is that this has something to do with differences between > > XFree86 3.x.x and 4.0.x, both of which I know nothing about except for > > what I've read on the errata page on ltsp.org. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net -- _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
