On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprac...@t-online.de> wrote: > This might sound strange for some of you guys, but we're still working > with LTSP 4.2 and a Suse 10.3 server. > > So I tried LTSP 5 on our system for the first time, using SuseEducation > 11.2 and KIWI-LTSP 5. I prepared an older machine with a new system and > set it up like described in the documentation. There were some glitches, > and I'd like to discuss how to proceed. > > My first impression was that the clients take way much longer time to > boot into the login screen. Loading initrd produces some long lines of > dots and takes at least 5 sec (against half a second on our current > system). Booting takes much longer, producing a lot of messages in the > startup script like on any ordinary Linux system. All in all it lasted > at least 90 sec or longer to boot a client. > > First question: Is that normal with LTSP 5 or can it be optimized? > > There are DellOptiplex PIII clients which seemed to run flawlessly. > http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Tips_and_Tricks#Increasing_performance_on_low_end_client_hardware http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Troubleshooting
> The Siemens Scenic P6 ones, however, fail when switching into graphics > mode. The screen goes black, and that's it. They have Matrox video cards > (maybe 4, maybe 8 MB, I'm not sure right now) which aren't that bad, but > it might need tweaking Xorg configuration. > Try XSERVER=vesa in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf > So my second question: where do I have to go here? > Almost everything to get you started is here: http://en.opensuse.org/Category:LTSP Cheers -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
