John, Yesterday I followed the instructions in the documentation you cited (please note the XF86CONFIG_FILE line in my lts.conf file included in my response to jam's request). In addition, I've stepped through all the checks in jam's trouble-shooter titled "gray screen with large X cursor". And I've been testing in runlevel 3.
I've installed LTSP in 2 separate ways and actually got further (ie, up to the gray screen with large X cursor) the first time. Here's what I did. I started with a system running Gentoo (v1.2). On first intalling LTSP I used the *.tgz files of course but ran the install script for Red Hat which I modified myself until it ran without any problems. This was ltsp-core 3.0.4. I never could get past the gray screen with large X cursor with this install. Then I learned of David Snopek's unofficial ebuild for LTSP on Gentoo (http://www.pfm.ee/gentoo/) and I installed that successfully (being ltsp-core 3.0.7) but over the previous installation. And that's where the system is at this point. > The LTSP startup scripts will attempt to build an appropriate > XF86Config file for each workstation based on the information you > provide in > lts.conf. The simplest trick is to put XSERVER=auto under [Default] and > hoping that it works for all your workstations. If not, you may need to > specify a particular driver - e.g. XSERVER = XF86_S3 - or some other > parameters - e.g. X_COLOR_DEPTH = 16. The LTSP startup scripts will > build the workstations' XF86Config scripts appropriately. See > http://ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0-4-en.html#AEN1022 > > If all else fails, you can build your own XF86Config script and store > it on the server, and use lts.conf to force LTSP to use that instead of > building its own: XF86CONFIG_FILE = MyXFS86_Config_ws001. > > One useful trick is to set RUNLEVEL = 3 for the workstation. This will > get you to a bash prompt. You can then /tmp/start_ws and see the error > messages if X dies. > > John > > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:48:50 -0800 (PST) > "J. B. Schatz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can anyone indicate where to go for instructions on getting X >> configured properly? I've got ltsp up and running except for the >> graphical component. Starting the X server returns "(EE) No devices >> detected. Fatal server error: no screens found." > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
