On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 18:55 +0200, Andreas Schamanek wrote: > and I just had a look into a logfile of a PC running a i845G, and, > indeed, it lists vesa.
I confirm that this happens on all our machines running the i845G chipset. > Still, I had troubles with the 10.04 running on i845, 855, etc. and > after switching to 11.04 all worked so well out of the box that I did > not further investigate. The vesa driver works quite well, but any application relying on OpenGL breaks. Depending on your usecase this may be very many. In our case, having installed Edubuntu, several applications fail. > In any case, make sure the actual system is able to boot X at all. It does. Reliably. But the experience does not live up to what users nowadays expect, even from a weak system. If the client fails to display even the simplest 3d graphics, unexperienced users will blame Linux/Ubuntu for it. I already had the first users request me to trash Ubuntu and reinstall Windows because of this... > I.e., don't blame the LTSP config if it's actually the combination of > kernel, drivers and X that breaks. No matter what breaks, it must be fixed :-). Thank you for your comments, Andreas! Regards, Rüdiger -- Dr. Ruediger Kupper <[email protected]> Kepler-Gymnasium Freundenstadt
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