This is now resolved. I would like to thank everyone who mailed me for their suggestions.
Pedro, I appreciate that video cards are pretty inexpensive these days, but we have approx. 60 clients to run on this network; even at 6 bucks a card, that is still that is still 360 bucks worth of budget that I do not have. I am donating my time and possibly some 10/100 switches as the LAN (bandwidth) is pivotal to the success of an LTSP environment. As previously stated, this is not an option. Anselm, Thank you for the information you provided on your install and what you did to get it working. After reading of your success with the XF86_S3, I was a little more confident in finding a solution. Ian, Thank you for pointing out something that should have been GLARINGLY obvious to me: VGA16 is 16 colours and NOT 16bit colour! I am happy to say that this has now been resolved with the help of Mike A. Harris, a RedHat Systems Eng XFree86 Maintainer who had this to say: <SNIP> Yes, definitely ditch XFree86 3.3.6. There is really no useful need for it anymore. Any video hardware out there should run with XFree86 4.2.0 either with a native driver for the card, or by using the "vesa" driver, "fbdev" or with the "vga" driver as a last resort. In the case of S3 hardware, it is much advised to use the "vesa" driver as the native drivers aren't working to well, and are unlikely to ever get much maintenance. I dropped 3.3.6 in RHL 8.0 because it was a huge maintenance problem and caused a lot of user confusion and distribution integration confusion, as well as major problem whenever secuirty issues were found - since nobody upstream is interested in 3.3.6 anymore. I've not received any bug reports or problem reports really from users yet after making this decision, so I assume that all hardware either works well out of the box, or that users are able to get things up and running successfully with "vesa" or "vga" or even "fbdev" drivers. I encourage users to submit via bugzilla any information needed to get a given card to work in 4.x, so I can change the defaults in future releases and erratum. Hope this helps. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. </SNIP> To add to this, some exhaustive searching on the net led me to a driver downloads site which had info on the monitor (i.e. Horizontal Sync and Vertical Refresh data). Once this was plugged into the lts.conf, the XFree86 4.2.x server displayed fine. I have even managed 800x600x16 (which Win 98 could not manage on this hardware), much to my delight. Mike H., thanks again. Mike W. __________________________________________________ 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
