[THIN] Re: A challenge!
- From: Mark Guzzo <marguz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:18:30 -0500
I got one for you, try Linux. ...(no flames please :-) )
If you are just playing around, why not give the Penguin a try. Tux might just
surprise you.
Hey Ron ;-) HA!
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:32:34 +0100
Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here's one for the pros.
>
> I'm in the process of converting some elderly PCs (Mostly Pentium 75-120)
> into DOS based thin terminals. All is fine unless I use an S3 based video
> card, at which point there is about a 10% chance of extremely weird colours
> when the NT login prompt appears.
>
> Picture the NT login box. Now picture it with all the white areas flashing
> through a 16 colour palette, spending about 0.25 seconds on each colour.
> This only seems to happen with S3 cards and I've seen it with 4 different
> chipsets so far on a choice of Intel motherboards. I've ordered a few
> alternative graphics cards but the only PCI models I can get have, wait for
> it, S3 Savage 4 processors.
>
> I know it's a long shot but has anyone met and solved this one in the past?
>
> Regards
> Angus
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^^^ got Linux ^^^
Mark Guzzo
Sair LCA, LCP
Citrix Administrator
"Don't Fear The Penguin."
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