RE: [K12OSN] Matching xserver with video cards was: S3 ProSavage PM133 video card support for K12LTSP
Aaron Leininger (aleininger@ttsd.k12.or.us)
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:25:23 -0700
The hard disk in the machine has win2kpro on it so I used that to determine
what resolutions/frequencies were supported. As I said before, no luck.
>I really have no business giving advice here, but I have been working hard
>on getting all of the workstations in my building booting to the LTSP
>server, so I have run across my share of video problems. I have a
hodgepodge
>of donated equipment of various ages, but mostly OLD. It seems to me that
>the video issues can be a combination of xserver and vert, or xserver,
vert,
>and horz settings. That's as far as I have experimented. I am getting
>approx. 50 machines onto the network and I am working on the ones that work
>first, swapping monitors and video cards getting things finished room by
>room working through the building.
>Blanking screen: I have been having similar problems with Matrox Millenium
>MGA cards in some old Vectra workstations. For the most part, defining
>XF86_SVGA as the xserver has solved my problems of the screen blanking when
>the gui loads. With a certain monitor I also specified the vert refresh
>rate*. However, when that video card is combined with an old NEC MultiSync
>monitor (I have 3 that I haven't figured out all the settings for), I see
>four K12LTSP login screens all blurred together across the screen. I will
>work on that problem later this weekend.
Works on some cards but not on this one. setting XF86_SVGA was the first
thing I tried when auto wouldn't work.
>I do have a few brand new Dells and a friend of mine took one of the new
>monitors and hooked it up to a machine with a video card/display problem
>then selected menu so he could see the settings for the card. I didn't try
>it myself yet, but according to him, the newer monitors detect and display
>the card settings. I think that is how he decided to "define" the vertical
>setting, and got three machines to work using that method (See * above).
All
>I remember is I heard him say AHA! and the next thing I know, the three
more
>machines were up and running. :^)
Interesting idea. If I can find a monitor that does this, I'll try it.
>I did find this reference page in my hunt and it seems to shed a little
more
>light on what xserver goes with which video card:
>
>http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status.html
Will try this stuff out too...Thanks for the info.
-Aaron
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