Heru Walmsley wrote:
Hi All,
I am running Linux Terminal Server (www.ltsp.org) v3 on RH8. One of my terminals is a
Packard Bell P133 with the built in Cirrus chip set. It is using a 3Com 3C590 NIC. It
boots fine but when I get to the X session it appears as 2 images on the monitor, one
overlapped over the other but one image is to the left of the other. Also the display
is 640x480 instead of the 1024x768 it is set to. It is set to auto detect the video
chip. It is like a TV picture with a ghost. I have never seen this before.
I've seen this a few times when the Cirrus chip screwed up monitor
detection. Your monitor may be overdriven. Check the XF86Config file
to see what your monitor has been detected as. Also try selecting a
lower video resolution and color depth to see if that works.
The video chip set is built into the motherboard. I have tried 3 different video boards but it appears that it only finds the onboard cirrus chip. Is there a way to tell linux or the Xserver to probe the system for other video boards. I did not see a way to disable the onboard video chipset in the BIOS.
Usually adding a AGP or PCI video board will disable the onboard
chipset. Instead of using the Redhat X configurator logon as root and
type "XFree86 -configure". That will produce a basic XF86Config file
but you'll have to edit it. You'll need to add the DefaultDepth and
Modes= lines to the Screen section.
Any ideas on why this happens? No one on the LTSP mail list has a clue.
Thanks
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