Re: [school-discuss] Rescuing a School Technology Program: Linux Thin-client Overview

[Leon Brooks <leon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 26 September 2005 14:20, Damir wrote:
> Jeff Waddell pravi:
>> You say you gave up on the thin-client approach.  What was the
>> "straw that broke the camels back"?  And can we help restart that
>> effort?

> Integrated graphics cards on clients!!
> It's sis6502. I found no X driver for that card and used vesa driver.
> Slow. Slooooow.

Well, yes, SiS cards *suck* -- near as much as low-end S3 cards -- I've 
had to use some of them.

But isn't the 6502 just a SiS650 variant, which is in turn a SiS315 
variant? In which case the "sis" driver which ships with the X.org 
servers seems to think that it should drive them.

Cheers; Leon

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