Darryl Bond wrote:
>
> I use the IGEL terminals as LTSP terminals. The LTSP3 kernel will not boot on
> some of the models but I haven't got to the bottom of why yet (I haven't
> actually spent any time finding out why). I must say that I have spent more time
> getting IGELs to work properly than any other terminal type.
>
> There are the steps required.
> * Remove the MSystems DiskonChip from the motherboard. This seems to steal
> memory from a required location which causes strange problems while booting ie
> no kernel command line can be passed!!
Ours do not even start network activity...
> * Set the bios to LAN boot
> * Set up PXE on the server
> * Create a PXE kernel and initrd
> * IGELs must use the old SVGA X server
> * It needs a special mode lines in lts.conf. These 3 work:
> X_MODE_0 = 800x600-igel 40.0 800 823 968 1056 600 601 605
> X_MODE_0 = 800x600-72hz-igel 50.0 800 823 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +HSync +VSync
> X_MODE_0 = 1024x768_igel 65.0 1024 1047 1184 1344 768 771 777 806
>
> * As I said earlier, it is not reliable with LTSP3.0 on some models so it might
> not work at all on the ones you have??
Thank you for the detailed description.
We now have one IGEL using LTSP-3.0, but we had to insert another NIC, a
3C905CX-TXM
which was in our "spare" box...
This way, I could boot the IGEL/J using PXE and Mandrake's current
cooker kernel
(I wrote a script which integrates Mandrake's kernel into LTSP 3.0
instead of the
ltsp_kernel package).
Everything is fine, even with XFree86-4, as used by LTSP.
Only the hardware doew not allow for 1280x1024 with 24 bit color, there
are
"shadows" and other artifacts on the screen.
Thank you anyway,
J�rgen
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