S3? No problem! I am using them at 800x600 for about 3 years now. However, most of the older S3 models simply don't have room for more than 1 Mb of on-board RAM and usually came with only 512 Mb.
>From experience and for my needs I have determined that my thin clients at least have to be 486DX4/100 MHz/32 Mb RAM boxes with some PCI slots for a 100 Mbit NIC and a speedy, but affordable, PCI graphics adapter. Even with such boxes I use NFS swap to avoid XFree from being swept out by the kernel when it starts lacking memory on such a terminal. 800x600 or 1024x768? IMHO the choice depends on what you want to achieve. If you develop applications, be it for the web or otherwise, then please stick to at most 800x600. Only some lucky (rich?) users have 40" displays with super high resolutions. The others have old eyes which can't read those tiny fonts on a 15" monitor anymore ;) Wouter On 16-Nov-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hazzmat, > > I've used lots of S3 cards with LTSP. > > You said you installed the ltsp_x336_s3 package. Did you also > set XSERVER = XF86_S3 ? I'm guessing you did, but just figured > I'd make sure. > > Adding swap via NFS won't help the video at all. it's only > gonna help system ram. > > with only 1mb of video ram, you can't do 1024x768 16-bits. that > requires 1.5mb of video ram. ( 1024 x 768 ) * 2 = 1,572,864 > > So, the fact that you only get 800x600 doesn't surprise me. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, hazzmat wrote: > >> Hello, I have just made my first experimental install of LTSP. The >> server is Mandrake 9.0 and I used rpms from sourceforge as they >> seemed >> to install OK. The etherboot nic is a tulip lne100 from diskless >> workstations with onboard bootrom. Between the ws001 (which is an >> old >> p166 desktop w/32 MB of RAM) is a 100base-t switch. The server >> also has >> a 100base-t nic. >> With a little scraped knuckles everything is basically working. >> Praise >> be to LTSP. >> However, there is this weird flickering of the root window. Like >> part of >> the GDM window appears to be tearing off from the login box and >> appears >> slightly displaced to the right. It flickers like this appearing >> and >> disappearing in less than half a second. >> This is an 1996 vintage desktop from IBM with S3trio builtin video >> chipset and 1 MB ram. I know desktops like this will do 1024x768 >> at 16 >> bits, but this setup is producing only a 800x600 desktop and this >> flickering problem. I altered lts.conf for ws001 so that it used >> an NFS >> swap file to increase the locally available RAM but it didn't >> help. >> Could the flickering be network related? >> Or is it simply not good enough a video chipset for use with LTSP >> ? I >> installed the Xfree86-3.3.6 server for S3 instead of going with >> X4. I >> tried X4 at first --it didn't seem terribly happy. I don't think >> these >> S3trio chipsets were well supported by X4 until X4.3. I 've also >> never >> known this flickering or desktop size limitation to happen with a >> system >> built on this desktop with a normal (local) install. I don't >> recall ever >> seeing such bad artifacts with remote X display either. >> Is this unusual? >> Do I just need to buy some halfway decent video cards to make this >> go away? >> >> thanks. -------------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 16-Nov-03 14:39:39 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) In a world without fences who needs Gates ? -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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
