In the past there's been discussion about these old Dells with the i810
on the K12LTSP mailing list.  Try searching their archives. 
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/

-Rob

Tanner Bachman wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have three old Dell Dimension L800CXE computers laying around and I thought 
> that they would make great LTSP terminals for training purposes.  I have a 
> whole company (about 60 terminals) running off of an LTSP server and I love 
> it.  The problem is that the Dell systems have an Intel i810 video chip and 
> even though they connect to the xserver just fine, they lock up completely 
> after about a minute of clicking around.  I've tried various X_MODE and 
> X_VIDEORAM and XSERVER settings in LTS.CONF, but I just can't get it to work. 
>  I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem before and perhaps knows 
> a workaround or solution.  I have gone through the LTSP Wiki and tried the 
> various suggestions, but nothing seems to work.  I'm running LTSP v4.2 on 
> Fedora Core 5.
>
> Thanks,
> Tanner
>
>
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> Sherwood Botsford wrote:
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>   
>> Why are you reluctant to run ssh?
>>     
>
> The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly
> a performance issue: if you've got 1ghz clients with goodly amount
> of ram, yeah, it's a great solution.  Problem is, we've got a lot
> of people running some really low end hardware, who, understandably,
> want all the bells and whistles, but have some acheingly bad hardware.
>
> Just a few weeks ago, I bumped into a fellow who's got a few hundred
> machines with, like, 200 Mhz processors and 16 megs (!) of ram.  They
> worked, barely, on an older ltsp version with a 2.4 kernel, but now
> don't under ltsp5, due to 2.6 kernels being much bigger, and the
> size of the initramfs.  Of course, he wanted sound, localdevs, graphics,
> and any other bling going that he could.  We couldn't make it work
> for him, and the last time I talked, he was going to have to see about
> finding more ram for the boxes.
>
>   
>> Method 2:
>> On the server create a new file system.  Can be quite small.
>> Let it be mountable rw by all clients.  Mount it as
>> "remote_commands"  In this directory, create a directory for each 
>> client, with the name of the cleint.
>>
>> On the client, create a cron job that periodically checks for the 
>> contents of /remote_commands/`hostname`/
>> If it finds a script there, it copies the script to /tmp, deletes 
>> the script from the server, then executes it.  (Or the last line 
>> of the script can delete the script.
>>     
>
> I like this method, however, only thing I'd change would be to replace
> cron with a small inotify util.  It would be small, with a low memory
> consumption.
>
> Scott
>
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