Re: Digital Venturis P166 thin clients problems

No, no... I was replying to someone else's post... Yeah, more ram's the go, and depending on how many the same there are... 
Mine goes fine apart from the s3 driver for x3 not really liking the S3 chip (damn companies that dont tell people how their stuff works).


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: anrew flintoff 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] Digital Venturis P166 thin clients problems


  Dear tim
  i had faced the same proplem.
  i increased my ram to 64MB and clients started booting fine
  hope it helps to solve ur problem
  regard
  andrew

  Tim Bates <[email protected]> wrote:
    Im using one of these boxes for a client at the school i work for. The
    onboard video does crap up soemthing shocking.

    Anyway, I think the one Im using has only got 24mb RAM, but the trick is
    still that you need to adjust the RAMDISK setting. You need a nice mix of
    free ramdisk space and free system ram. I cant remember what I used for the
    ramdisk size, but I have a feeling it was around 12mb. You have plenty of
    ram to spare though, so go for 16 to start with and if it fails still, try a
    slightly higher amount.

    My numbers here might be way out.... I havent looked at the config file in
    over 3 months (was school holidays).

    Tim

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Craig Falconer" 
    To: 
    Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:59 PM
    Subject: [pxes-devel] Digital Venturis P166 thin clients problems


    Gidday all.

    I have just received 30 of the above machines for use as thin clients. They
    are intel pentium 166 with 32 Mb ram, and on-board S3 Trio video. They have
    no onboard network card. So I put in a standard video card (S3 Virge) and
    network card (new Realtek 8139 with PXE boot rom) and powered on.

    The machine loads the kernel and initrd fine, then proceed to boot the
    kernel. I get down to

    ...
    hid-core.c etc etc
    mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
    8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26

    and there it stops and freezes. Keyboard LEDs stop toggling at that point,
    keyboard doesn't respond and I can no longer scroll up with shift-pageup

    I've tried many different realtek NICs, as well as changing the mouse from
    serial to ps/2 to none. Interestingly, the machine has no USB ports. After
    further research I found this error at the very top of the kernel boot data

    Failed to free base memory, error 0015-0001-F00FE6E

    Can anyone advise me on what else to try?

    Google offers only
    http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2003-July/002322.html which is
    similar, but no answers



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