I managed to get the problematic video card SIS 6205 in a HP vectra working today with the information from the wiki. I have a question about it though.
The card starts only when mode_0 is set to 800x600. When it is set to 1024x768 the Xserver does not start. Hmm it starts, it shows the knows gray X background together with the pointer, but there it stays. It looks like the system crashes, as e.g <ctrl><alt><F2> does not either. If the card starts in 800x600 mode it is possible to switch to 1024x768 mode using the <ctrl><alt><keypad+> buttons. Somehow the card is able to operate in 1024x768 mode, but starting it up is not possible. I specified the X_VIDEORAM as 2048. The card is normally equipped with 1MB of memory which is taken from the normal memory. According the specs it is possible to extend it to 2MB, which is than again taken from the regular memory. According http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/VideoCards#How_much_video_memory_do_I_need 1.5 MB is sufficient for 1024x768 (x16) video mode. So I would say that x_videoram = 2048 should start up the videocard, isn't? Below a part of generated XF86Config.1 file: Section "Device" Identifier "My Video Card" Driver "vesa" VideoRam 2048 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Does anyone have a suggestion to get this card started in 1024x768 (just as all other terminals, that we have)? Is the card really get 2MB of memory appointed by system as specified in the XF86Config.1 file? As alternative another videocard might be used, but that is not what I'm looking for at the moment.... -- TIA, Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
