Gavin Chester wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:54 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: >> Wilson A. Galafassi Jr. wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I have some old machines with motherboard with DIMM (big connector) >>> >> That should be 'DIN' connector. >> >>> keyboard. What is necessary to change in the configuration to this keyboard >>> works fine? >>> >> No changes are necessary. Linux doesn't care whether it's ps/2 or AT >> style keyboard. >> >> Jim McQuillan >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Listen to Jim, he's the man ;-) > > But, I wonder whether the OP should have been given some warnings about > his choice of client hardware. A far as I remember, AT keyboard > connectors stopped being used after early 486 PCs, predating the > earliest PIs. Therefore, these boxes will probably also come with very > little RAM and an ISA bus. People have made these sort work, but the > effort (ie, workarounds) is far greater than with a PII and newer having > 128MB of RAM and PCI/AGP video cards of 4MB or better. Just thought it > fair to point that out, too :-) > > Gavin
I've got Pentium-1 machines, up to about 200mhz, with PCI slots, with the old 5-pin DIN AT-style connectors. They're not that rare. Petre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
