Im sorry but that hardware limit is simply a hardware limit, the good news is that you only need to buy the cheapest possible video card on the market to get the quality needed for the workstation, come on, they do have 6 bucks for the clients video upgrade! 8)
If you are getting a used card, the minimum is 4 MB 8) --- Mike Wangu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I am currently building an LTSP environment to > replace > MS Windows for a charity organisation. They have had > some old equipment donated to them for use in a > community oriented training scheme they are putting > together. It is important to emphasise that the > budget > for this implementation is nil, so I have to do what > I > can with what is there - upgrade is not an option! > > My test environment: > > _Server_ > DISPLAY: 17" monitor > VIDEO: Intel 810 (16Mb Video Ram) > CPU: PIII 800 > HDD: 60GB > MEM: 384MB > OS: RedHat 8.0 > > _Client_ > DISPLAY: 14" monitor (Elonex superVGA - SV14) > VIDEO: Phoenix S3 Trio32/64+ (1Mb Video RAM) > CPU: P75 > HDD: 0.5GB > MEM: 32MB > > The problem here is the monitor (mainly). Under > Windows 98 (the original OS), the max monitor > resolution appears to be 640x480 16bit. > > I have had to set this ltsp client up with > XF86_VGA16 > as XF86_S3, XF86_S3V and XF86_SVGA (version 3.3.6) > nor > XFree86 (version 4.2.0) would drive the monitor > properly - I tried numerous modelines using > http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linux/modeline/ > as > I do not have the monitor documentation (requested > from vendor 2 weeks ago, still no luck). > > The problem is that the graphics appear VERY grainy > (including the standard RH8.0 background). > > Does anyone have any suggestion as to how I could > possibly improve this? I am thinking that if Windows > can display clearly on this monitor, then > (hopefully) > Linux should be able to as well. > > Thank you for your time and assistance. > > Mike. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm > Tungsten T > handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _____________________________________________________________________ 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
