This worked for the most part. I found I also had to configure the lts.conf file to
specify that some workstations use "XF86_SVGA" for the xserver parameter. Just wouldn't
take "auto" for an answer. The odd part that all of my workstations use ATI cards, and
other people only seem to have issues with S3 chipsets.

1000 thank-you's. I'll bake you a cobbler.

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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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