Ken,
the how-to is very nice, but it misses a few points.
Point number one and most important: the fonts on thinknics are
rather blurry unless run in the native Xvesa mode. Jim McQuillan was
unbelievably gracious and provided xvesa package on the ltsp site. this
setup follows the thinknic's way of doing things and the fonts are
"unblurred". xvesa uses mode statements in etc/rc.local and doesn't
understand X_MODE statements in the lts.conf, hence, it is a good idea to
change etc/rc.local to read the X_MODE_0 statement and select the desired
resolution 0x0117 sets 1024x768 and 0x0114 sets 800x600. it might look
somethink like the following:
X_MODE_0=`get_cfg X_MODE_0 1024x768`
and then Xvesa statement gets changed to:
Xvesa) XBINARY="Xvesa"
if [ "${X_MODE_0}" = "800x600" ]; then
XOPTS="-shadow -mode 0x0114"
else
XOPTS="-shadow -mode 0x0117"
fi
;;
Point number two: turning off modem and audio in bios turns of
modem and audio - no more playing music on the station.
Point number 3: turning off disk support prevents the use of the
thinknic when the ltsp server is not available.
Point number 4: i have not seen any difference in behavior when
the shared video memory was upped from 2 to 4MB.
Point number 5: the K12OS distribution sets a perfectly good
network of ltsp terminals, works really well with thinknics, has xvesa
ltsp package and needs only the change in rc.local.
my $0.02. julius
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Ken McCord wrote:
> I've updated the HowTo I've written on using ThinkNics with LTSP 3.0.
> You can check it out at http://www.themccords.com/~ken/ltsp/index.html
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