Flickering? Could it be that your modelines aren't what they should be? Wouter
On 16-Nov-03 hazzmat wrote: > [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. >> >> >> > Yep. > >>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. >> >> >> > Ok I guess I was remembering a similar IBM desktop with onboard > S3trio, > but with 2MB video RAM instead of 1MB. I've accumulated a small > pile of > old desktops more or less the same. > > That would mathematically explain the 800x600 desktop. Could it > also be > the source of the flickering/tearing? Another "artifact" that I > didn't > describe in the original post was a vertical band of noise-like > distortion up the right side of the screen. Heck maybe the S3 chip > in > this PC is just about to kick the can. > I don't have any PCI video cards to test with yet, but I can see > that > I'll be definitely needing them now. > > S3 Savage IX --anyone have experience with these and X (the X4 > version > that comes with LTSP)? Or does anyone know of another kind of PCI > video > card that is truly well supported but cheap as dirt? like $15< ? > > Thanks. > >>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 14:42:04 (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
