True. I don't think AGP and EDO coexisted much, if at all. It's been a while (couple years) since I've looked at high-end video cards, but there was a time that one could find PCI versions of some of the latest cards. Perhaps no longer...
A 16MB video card might actually just do the trick for a system with 16MB in SIMMS already. LTSP isn't reliable with 16MB, but is rock solid with 32MB (X isn't *that* bad). So, leaving 4MB to actual video and giving the remaining 12MB to the system as swap brings you to 28MB effective "RAM". Not bad... :-) I agree, though, that this would be a possibility for only a fraction of a percent of the LTSP community. Jason On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 21:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jason, > > I saw that article, and found it interesting as well. > > But, aren't the EDO simms rather old technology ? And, > if you've got an older motherboard that requires EDO > memory, then you probably don't have an AGP slot for > a fancy video card. You're not likely to find > an nvidia PCI card. > > You probably could find an ATI PCI card with 8 or 16mb of ram, > but that doesn't make a great swap device, as it's rather > small. > > So, maybe there is some application for this vram usage in LTSP, > but I think it will be really small number of people who can > actually take advantage of it. > > Jim. > > > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Jason Bechtel wrote: > > > You're all probably avid Slashdot readers like me and have or will soon > > see this article: > > > > <http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/02/2321211.shtml?tid=137> > > > > which links to this article: > > > > <http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html> > > > > which details how to map your unused video RAM as a usable memory space > > (MTD = Memory Technology Device) under Linux w/ XFree86. > > > > Of course, I immediately thought of the LTSP! I've had several > > occasions where I had an older machine that only took expensive EDO > > SIMMS which one had to special order and had an onboard video card that > > either didn't play well with Linux or didn't have enough VRAM. > > > > With this technique, I could avoid having to buy SIMMS for the thing > > (16MB just isn't enough for LTSP with X) and just buy a higher end > > graphics card with a bunch of memory and use it as swap! The VRAM swap > > would be a hell of a lot faster than local hard disk or NFS swapping... > > It would be almost like adding that RAM directly to the system! > > > > In this situation I could also have used the otherwise ignored VRAM > > associated with the onboard video card as additional swap... > > > > The process described could be automated to some degree and reduced to a > > simple LTSP variable, VRAM_SWAP. :-) > > > > Jason ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
