On Sunday 11 January 2009 00:29:41 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > I'm just posting my experience in case anybody else is fighting the same > battle I just fought... > > I just spent a lot of time troubleshooting some video resolution issues. > No matter what I did, I couldn't get my 17" CRT monitor to display better > than 800x600 resolution. I tried manually setting the resolution and > forcing the vesa driver. It turned out that my KVM switch was to blame, > because when I hooked the monitor directly to the thin client it worked > fine! > > I'm using LTSP 5 on Debian Lenny. The thin client is a P3 with i810 video.
All that tells you is that your KVM switch does not talk both ways. The monitor is asked, and if it answers THAT resolution is used. This explains your problem, also explain the myriad of 'I set xxx' but I can get only 'yyy' James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _____________________________________________________________________ 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
