On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Sudev Barar wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 09:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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]
> 
> As you point out about 2MB for simple 1024x768 should be sufficient. On
> few i810 motherboard clients with 128MB RAM I have set AGP memory as
> high as 64 MB but still anything beyond 800x600 and the workstations
> refuse to run. Monitors are capable and on other clients go even higher
> that 1024x768.
> What gives??

What kind of error are you getting when you set the resolution
beyond 800x600 ?

Jim.




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