Hello jay the Ubuntu community has written this on usin ION clients. It details using different xorgs for different clients https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon
I hope this can poke you in the right direction On 11/15/2011 04:00 AM, Jay Goldberg wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been running LTSP on the Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11, which is an Intel Atom > D510 with an NVidia. > > I tried to outsmart the gods by installing the proprietary > nvidia-current driver in the chroot and simply forcing the driver by > using the XSERVER=nvidia parameter in lts.conf. I figured I could just > add this line for ION2 clients and boot the rest of the clients (a mix > of Pentium/Celeron Ds with ATI RV610 cards) on the same chroot. It > worked...or so I thought. Turns out that the nvidia-current does more > nefarious things than just putting a driver in > /usr/share/xorg/modules/drivers and rebuilding the initrd with the > driver. It also messes with glx, moving libraries and other things. For > example /etc/alternatives/gl_conf has these two lines: > /usr/lib/nvidia-current > /usr/lib32/nvidia-current > > So basically it broke acceleration for the other fat clients using that > chroot. > > Furthermore, my sound on the ION2 clients no longer works, it used to > work with the onboard Realtek chip through the 3.5mm output. Two cards > are listed in alsamixer now, HDA Intel and HDA NVidia (which shows no > controls). > > There's got to be a better way to boot a mix of NVidia clients and > regular clients without maintaining 2 separate chroots > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon>, right? It's a > shame because these little ION2 PCs are slick, and cheap, but it's > obvious that NVidia was not counting on users booting different hardware > all of the time. > > Any help would be appreciated, and I'm sure others are interested in > hearing more about using NVidia and VDPAU on thin clients. > -- > Jay Goldberg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- Venlig Hilsen / Best Regards Christoffer Krakou Fleten.net APS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
