On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:59:37PM -0400, Brandon Phillips wrote: > Hello, > I am having a strange problem with my LTSP install. I am putting > together a setup for a client, it consists of 6 sv24 diskless PCs and a > dual athlon based server system. > > Here is where I am at: > I am using the latest core,kernel,x,and x fonts packages from the ltsp > site. > > I can boot a diskless workstaion when set at runlevel 3 > When the diskless station goes into X it completely hangs - black > screen, no error messages, no grey screen with cursor, nothing. > > I determined that it is a hang by the fact that I can ping the machine > and get a response up until the Xserver starts to take over. > > The hardware I am using is the shuttle sv24 mini-PC system (uses fv24 > MB) the integrated video is an s3 chip. I know there are some problems > with XF86 4 and the s3 chips; however I confirmed that the machine could > in fact run X by installing a temporary hard drive, and loading RH 7.3. > RH installed fine and booted into X just fine.
RH 7.3 uses X 4.2 which has some support for S3. LTSP uses X 4.1 which has no support for S3 chips. I see two options: A. use X 3.3.6 with S3 support (easy) B. install X 4.2 (a bit more complicated) For A. in the section for this workstation use: XSERVER = XF86_S3 And there must be a binary named XF86_S3 in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin/ That binary can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21/Servers/XS3.tgz or by installing the ltsp package x336_s3 from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/ltsp_x336_s3-3.0.0-0.i386.rpm?download For B. see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=628790&forum_id=2544 -- Hans Ekbrand
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