Since I am the one who has your ThinkNic I thought I should try it. I tried it and it works great. In addition to the blurry fonts, I was experiencing noise on the screen. The noise is gone. The monitor I used to test it is old, therefore I can't speak for the quality of the fonts, but they seem to look better too.
One problem - my mouse didn't work. To fix this I added a line in rc.local to create a link to /dev/psaux (ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse). Thanks for the help Jim. Erick On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, > > I think i've got something worth trying. > > I don't have a ThinkNic here right now, i've loaned it > out for a couple of days. > > But, after looking at the CD iso images, I've found that > they run Xvesa for the Xserver. I haven't seen the source > for this, but it is quite interesting. It seems that it doesn't > use Modelines, rather it relies on the vesa framebuffer mode of > the video adapter. You pass the resolution on the command line > as a 0x0117 for 1024x768. > > I've modified the rc.local script and I tried it on one of > my workstations, but it has an i810 chipset, and it didn't work > very well. > > I also tried running Xvesa on a server that I have that has an ati > video card, and it worked very well, but that server was already > in vfb mode. > > So, if you want to try it on your ThinkNic, here's what you need > to do: > > 1) Replace your /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.local script with the > one that I've modified. I've included it here as an attachment. > > 2) Find the Xvesa Xserver. It is on the ThinkNIC cdrom. I'll > be happy to send it to you, but I didn't want to attach it to > this email, cuz the Xvesa binary is about 1mb. > > 3) Put the Xvesa in the /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin directory > and make sure it is executable mode=755 > > 4) Change the 'XSERVER' entry in the lts.conf file for your > ThinkNic to be 'XSERVER = Xvesa'. > > 5) Reboot the workstation and give it a try. > > If it doesn't work, you may need to pass an extra option to the > kernel. That option would be 'vga=773'. If you do that, make sure > you also include option-128 with the Etherboot signature. > The options would look like this: > > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; > option option-129 "vga=773"; > > If you are running dhcpd version 3.0, then you will also > need these lines near the top of the dhcpd.conf file: > > option option-128 code 128 = string; > option option-129 code 129 = text; > > > I don't know if you'll need that kernel cmdline, but I figured I'd > tell you about it ahead of time, just in case. > > And, I don't know if this will fix the blurry font/graphics problems, > but it does get us closer to the way the ThinkNic guys are doing it. > > Please give it a try, and let me know the results. if it works > properly, I'll make it part of the standard LTSP distro. > > Thanks, > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: > > > Jim, > > the iso is available on the thinknic site: > > http://www.thinknic.com/thinknic/about/cdimages.html > > you want version 2.0 - this is current. > > the setup looks somewhat different from ltsp and i get lost in it > > rather easily, but there is a discussion group on yahoo that deals with > > cd based thinknics http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinknic-tech/ and the > > archive is somewhat searchable. i found many references to "modeline" > > before i realized that the search kicked up all messages that had "mode" > > and "line" in them. julius > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Julius, > > > > > > This helps to confirm my theory that it is either the > > > Modelines or the Xserver that is on the CD. One other > > > thing it could be is the refresh rates that they are driving > > > it at. > > > > > > Is that CD image available online somewhere ? > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > -- Erick S. Tyack Acurrus Consulting, LLC Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22969 Allen Rd Voice: 586.801.0004 St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 Fax: 586.447.5458 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
