[K12OSN] Weird Video

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 8/22/06, Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
>
> Petre,
>
> I think there's 2 issues:
>
> 1)  Prior to LTSP-4.2 (k12ltsp-5.0), we had both X.org AND a much older
>      xfree86 v3.3.6.  The 'vidlist' file pointed to the xfree86 3.3.6
> drivers for
>      cards like the s3 and s3v.  In LTSP-4.2 we dropped the older stuff
> because
>      it was quite a bit of overhead to have both.  Unfortunately, the
> drivers in
>      Xfree86 4.x and X.org still aren't very good for the s3 cards.
>
> 2)  There seems to be some new bugs in Xorg for the i810 chipsets.  I
> haven't
>      had a chance to dig in and see what's going on there.
>
> For #1, I hope that support for s3 cards will improve over time.
>
> For #2, I'm certain that i810 support will be fixed, if it's not
> already.  In fact, with Keith Packard working at Intel now, the quality
> of the drivers for Intel chipsets will definitely be getting a lot better.



Yes, it's nice to have Keith working for Intel. I'm sure he had something to
do with this

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/


Jim.
>
>
>
> Petre Scheie wrote:
> > This is an irresponsible, anecdotal reply, but it seems to me that as
> > X.org has evolved, I've had to specify VESA for the video for more and
> > more of my older machines.  I say this is irresponsible because I
> > haven't actually documented the pattern.  It just seems that back in
> > the last Xfree86 days, K12LTSP 3.x, most of my old machines, which
> > tended to have old video cards with just 2MB of RAM, worked without
> > any special configuration.  Those same machines sometimes have had
> > difficulty getting X to start with later versions of K12LTSP using
> > X.org.  In most cases, setting the xserver to VESA fixed the problem,
> > although sometimes a few more tweaks like memory size were necessary.
> > The i810 video chipset is a common culprit; there's a lot of
> > discussion in the archives about how to get it working.
> >
> > Petre
> >
> > Timothy Hart wrote:
> >> With teachers coming back and putting their rooms back together I am
> >> finally
> >> able to test the classroom K12LTSP clients thoroughly.
> >> They are all different old boxes. On a lot of them I am now getting
> >> garbled
> >> video and failed xstartups. They seemed to have worked in K12LTSP 4. I
> >> recently updated to 5. Could this just be that I need to tell the
> server
> >> what each of these "non working" graphics card is so it will send the
> >> right
> >> settings? Anyone else experience similar problems?
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >>
> >>
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