I am setting up an ltsp server for our small school, and I am having some
issues with display corruption on certain clients.  We have a number of Dell
Optiplex GX60 computers that I hoped to use as thin clients.  The login
process works correctly, and most applications run without issues.  The
problem comes when trying to view certain flash videos, or when viewing
complex images on the screen.  Youtube videos always corrupt the display,
but videos from cnn.com, for example, play perfectly.  Strangely, even when
the actual display is working correctly (uncorrupted), screenshots appear to
be corrupted (see attached).  Opening this screenshot (or any image file) in
the image viewer will cause visible corruption on the terminal display.
Some corruption also occurs when opening images in gimp, though to a lesser
degree.
Terminals using other hardware don't have any of the video corruption
problems.  I have tried setting the X_VIDEORAM option, adjusted color depth
and resolution, but the problems persist.  These systems have Intel Extreme
integrated graphics, which Windows reports as Intel 82845G.  From what I've
read, the i810 driver should work with this chipset, but setting XSERVER =
i810 in lts.conf results in a blank screen on the client.  There is no bios
setting for video ram, although there is an option for "Video buffer size"
which can be either 1 or 8 mb.  Windows reports that the graphics adapter
has minimum graphics memory of 1 mb and max graphics memory of 64 mb.
Perhaps the video ram is dynamically allocated?  Just a guess.  Any
suggestions on how I can get these terminals functioning correctly?

My server is a quad-core Xeon running Fedora 11 and ltspserver 5.1.72-1
(from repos).

My current lts.conf file reads as follows:

[default]
    X_COLOR_DEPTH=16
    X_VIDEORAM = 1024

    LOCALDEV=True
    SOUND=True
    NBD_SWAP=True
    SYSLOG_HOST=server
    LDM_GLOBAL_DMRC=/etc/ltsp/ldm-global-dmrc
    SCREEN_01=ldm
    X_MODE_0 = 800x600

    LDM_DIRECTX=yes
    LDM_DEBUG=yes

<<attachment: screenshot.jpg>>

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