On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi > > The idea is most elegant, but the whole SCREEN_xx stuff seems to be very > ifffy. > > I want to run 4 X servers on a client. > > SCREEN_01 = "startx" > > works perfectly. > > SCREEN_01 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :0" > SCREEN_02 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :1" > > works perfectly. > > SCREEN_01 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :0" > SCREEN_02 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :1" > SCREEN_03 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :2" > > keyboard no longer works Hmm, that's odd. No clue why that would be. > ok lets be clever and do it by hand ... > > SCREEN_01 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :0" > SCREEN_02 = "shell" > SCREEN_03 = "shell" > > X server on <f1> > no-keyboard shell on <f2> > shell (working) on <f3> > > SCREEN_01 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :0" > SCREEN_02 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :1" > SCREEN_03 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :2" > SCREEN_04 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :3" > > log does not even show 4th server starting. Take a look at /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/inittab only the first 3 screens are used by default. If you want more, you need to enable them, by setting the additional lines to 'respawn'. We found the 8 extra screen sessions to be causing a ton of NFS traffic, as they all wake up at the same time, and check the lts.conf file to see if they are supposed to do anything. > also <ctrl><alt><f1>, <f2> often work, even with no other keyboard > input. > > DM is GDM, configured to allow 4 XDM sessions (proved by X -query :n) > from another machine. > > Has anybody used multiple screen sessions. All recent 4.1 It turns out to be very dependent on the video chipset. Some of the drivers and chipsets are very fussy when it comes to switching away from them, and then immediately re-initializing a 2nd (or 3rd) screen. What chipset do you have? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
