Dan, You are trying to use the LPP kernel, but your video card doesn't support the framebuffer mode needed.
You need to use the Non-LPP kernel. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dan Gaestel wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to Linux but making good progress. I have installed and >configured LTSP and it works great with all the Dell computers. However, when I go >to boot up a 486/66/20MB w/3Com 509 NIC/512K ISA Trident TVGA Video Card(same problem >with Micron 133/32MB/Mach32 PCI Video Card, also tried an S3.) it loads the Kernel >and right after that it displays a message: > > You Have Passed an Undefined Mode Number > Press <ENTER> to see a list of video modes available <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 >Seconds > > Uncompressing Linux...OK, Booting the Kernel > > Then it just hangs. Tried all the settings after you press Enter. I have installed >all the XServer RPM's supplied by LTSP and a Vesa driver from the K12LTSP release, >changed lts.conf to use auto/svga/vga/s3/s3v but till no improvement. I even changed >the runlevel to 3. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > I have one final question. I have been scouring the net looking for examples of >LTSP Servers and their hardware configs. We will be setting up a LTSP Server that >will serve 50 workstations in our Intermediate School. The primary apps will be >StarOffice/OpenOffice(have not decided which yet) and Netscape/Mozilla. We were >thinking of using a Dell Server w/dual P4 1.8 Ghz Processors, 18 GB SCSI HD's, and >~1GB of Ram. Will this be sufficient? Thanks for your help in these matters. > > Dan Gaestel > Computer/Network Tech. > Ocean Township School District,NJ > -- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ 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
