On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:01, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > Just as advice, look for old Dell Desktops. I own one, I think G > something, with a 233 CPU, they are even fast enough for Winblows 98 > (I don't use it, so I don't matter). Really low noise, onboard NIC > (with PXE 0.9, which I didn't get to work, but there's always > etherboot floppies). Should be the right thing to pop a 15" monitor > (or 17") onto.
Yeah, that sounds like a nice box for it. > Nope. AFAIK - never done myself - you can have two separate running X > servers on one machine, just tell each which graphics card to use, > tell the one to use input mouse/kbd ps/2, the other one usb, > rock'n'roll. There were even some people designing thin clients for > two stations (two PCI graphics boards in a 486, or so, long ago :-) Mmmm, yeah, that's an idea, to tell a second X server to use the other head on the graphics card.... Anybody done that...? > > Since I've never heard about any such solutions, the next thought > > is to buy a PCI card where I could connect the monitor, keyboard > > and mouse. I guess this implies a PCI card with a CPU, GPU and PS/2 > > interfaces, RAM slots, etc. > Another idea, but are there really things like that? Hehe, I haven't found any for sure.... > Give it a try with the second graphics adapter. Results would be > interesting. Yup! I think I'll give it a try. But I would certainly need a hand, I'm rather a newbie (eh, that is, I used Linux for the first time in 1995, and a UNIX user since 1994, hardly looked at Windows boxes after the first half year on UNIX, but I'm very new to maintaining my own stuff). Would this list be the right place to ask for assistance, or can anybody suggest other lists? Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
