Re: [K12OSN] k12ltsp 4.0 and S3 video and Open Office

["Randall Swift" <swift msad52 k12 me us>]

k12osn redhat com writes:
>
>> From: "Randall Swift" <swift msad52 k12 me us>
>> I have installed k12ltsp 4 and had problems with my older terminals that
>> had S3 video cards. I installed the XF86 config fix from Jim and
>> everything worked fine. The problem I am having now is that any of my
>> terminals that have an S3 video run open office extremely slow (it opens
>> fine but the menus open very slow and the mouse starts to lag behind).
>My
>> other terminals that have Matrox video do not have this problem. Any
>> ideas??
>
>I had same problem on my test server. But fortunately I accidently nuked
>my
>test installation and in new installation this S3 card detected by XFree
>v4.
>And there are no "slow menus" any more.
>Weird thing is that both installations was clean and looks same.
>
>You can try specify in lts.conf XSERVER=s3 (i.e. to force XFree v4 s3
>driver
>instead of "auto").
>
>Maybe it help.
>
>Mella
>
>
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I have specified the video in the lts.conf file and it made no difference.
I have a writng lab with 14 terminals with S3 video cards. I need this to
work. I had no problem with open office in ver.3.1.2. I would hate to have
to go back to this. HELP!


Randy Swift
Network Administrator
Leavitt Area High School
Turner, Maine 04282
(207)225-3533
swift msad52 k12 me us