[K12OSN] Making LTSP work with old Compaqs

[cliebow at downeast.net]

give knoppix or suse cdrom os a try..with any luck it will tell you what
video it needs...chuck
> On Fri, 05 Mar 2004, Max Anikstein wrote:
> 
> > We just received approximately 30 Compaq Deskpro 590 computers. After some
> > messing with the boot disk, I got them to boot off the network but it can?t
> > configure the X Server. Based on some Googling it appears that the
computers
> > have QVISION 1280/P Graphics chips. Is there anyway to get these
machines to
> > work? Is there another X Server we can use? Do we need to purchase new
video
> > cards?
> 
> I seem to remember dealing with these before.
> 
> I think they are Matrox chipsets ?
> There is a commercial Xserver whose name I have forgotten that supports
> Matrox - but you pay quite a lot for it, and it might not work with LTSP.
> 
> The VESA driver might work, but I would not bet on it.
> 
> Save yourself some time, get other video cards.
> 
> The other problem is that it is very hard to find PCI video cards these
> days - I do not think you can buy them new any more.
> 
> Cheers,    Andy!
> 
> 
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