Jim:  Well, fortunately I did have the thought to check that this 
weekend while I was with the server, and it did infact say ati.

:(

--Eric




Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> It would be interesting to see which video driver is being used.  Setup 
> shell screen, and look at the XF86config file and see which driver it's 
> using.
> 
> If it's using 'vesa', it probably gonna be slow.  In that case, you'd 
> want to force 'ati' by setting  "XSERVER = ati" in the lts.conf file.
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Holt wrote:
>> Hey guys, got a problem.  I recently re-built a server for a client, and 
>> in the process upgraded from Slackware 10 to Slackware 11, and from LTSP 
>> 4.1 to LTSP 4.2.  Everything has worked great, except for I'm having a 
>> little bit of a problem with the screen not refreshing as fast as before.
>>
>> Background:  Our thin clients run Firefox in a full-screen (kiosk) mode 
>> and can only view our php-based application.  We are still using the 
>> exact same version/install of Firefox on the upgraded server as we were 
>> before (its an older version, but it works perfectly for us, and I dont 
>> feel like taking the time and modifying a newer version of Firefox to be 
>> a full kiosk like we need).
>>
>> Before, the users could scroll with the scroll wheel on the mouse and 
>> the screen moved very nicely, very smooth.  Now, when the user scrolls, 
>> there is some "lag" to the screen, its not as smooth, its more jerky.
>>
>> When scrolling on the server itself, the screen moves nice and smoothly.
>>
>> The thin clients are HP/Compaq t5300's.  I believe they have ATI 
>> graphics, but I am not positive of that.  I ssh'd into one of the 
>> clients and CPU usage is virtual zero, and RAM usage is normal (using 
>> about 34mb of the 56mb the client has available to it).  None of the 
>> 64mb of nbd swap is being used at all.
>>
>> The server isnt being taxed, either.  RAM usage is low (over a gig of 
>> free ram), and CPU usage is low as well ... at the same levels the 
>> server was at before doing the re-build.
>>
>> Sooooo, any thoughts?  I was thinking of installing LTSP 4.1 in a 
>> separate tree on the new server, and testing one or two clients on the 
>> old build, to see if video is still laggy, or not... to rule out an LTSP 
>> issue or a Slackware issue... but any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> THANKS!
>>    --Eric
>>
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