On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Varun wrote: > Hello, > I have a server on Mandrake 9.1 and ltsp 3xxx.I want to to use > vmware > and winXPPro as guest OS. I have five user and five thin clients. > My clients have 2-4 MB PCI vga cards. My server has a TNT Riva 32MB > VGA card. What effect will have should I change my client VGA cards to > say 8MB cards. Similarly what effect will the same have should I upgrade > my sever VGA card to lets say NVIDIA Geforce 4 card. > I have 512MB DDR RAM on the server.
The server video card doesn't matter at all. You don't even need a video card in the server, unless you want to also use the server as a workstation. The amount of video ram in the clients doesn't matter a whole lot either. It's mostly a matter of simple math. If you want 1024x768 16bit color, that's 1024 x 768 x 2 = 1,572,864 If you want 24bit color, that's 3 bytes per pixel instead of 2. If you want higher resolution, you just need to do the math, to see if it works out with your card. On a thin client, you likely aren't doing any fancy 3d rendering, so don't worry too much about the amount of ram, other than making sure you have enough for the resolution you want. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
