RE: [K12OSN] ATI Video not detected - Output Part Deux

[jam mcquil com]

Yep,

And I got it, and added it to my patches folder, so that I'll remember 
to include it in the next update.

Jim.



On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Joe Niffen wrote:

> I have sent Jim he second ATI Mobility card on my network
> 
> 1002:4C57       ati             #Radeon Mobility M6 LY
> 
> This came from a NEC PowerMate ECO system Tartenlla cpu (SP?) a
> combination cpu and monitor with separate USB Keyboard and USB Mouse.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin redhat com [mailto:k12osn-admin redhat com] On Behalf
> Of Eric Harrison
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: k12osn redhat com
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] ATI Video not detected 
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Joe Niffen wrote:
> 
> >Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Yes. See below for details.
> 
> >I an evaluating K12-LSTP ver. 4 on four systems.
> >IBM Net Station with S3 video, came up with no issues.
> >IBM PL 300 with also S3 Video, also no issues.
> >
> >I have tried IBM Thinkpad A31 with the  ATI Mobile chip, K12-LTSP will
> not or 
> >can not detect the video.  If I change the lts.conf xserver = auto to
> ati it 
> >will work fine.
> >
> >The fourth machine was the NEC Tananella (sp?) chip with again ATI
> video and 
> >again once I modified the lts.conf file it will run fine.
> >
> >The old version 3.x for K12-LTSP would detect the video or the setting
> was 
> >general enough to be detected automatically.
> >
> >Besides the manual setting is there a better setting so the process is
> still 
> >automatically?
> 
> ATI chipsets, particularly the "mobile" laptop versions, constantly
> change PCI ids. This has been causing us a great deal of pain.
> 
> This was the most-discussed topic amongst the LTSP developers at
> LWCE NY.
> 
> We have a couple of ideas on how to tackle this problem, but no
> working code as of this moment. (as far as I know, Jim may have
> coded it since we last talked ;-)
> 
> The simple solution, probably the one we will try first, is to
> drop back to the vesa driver. Try setting XSERVER = vesa  and let
> us know if it works decently on the two that you are having problems.
> 
> -Eric
> 
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