Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New 'sidecar' install

2002-10-17 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:57:44 -0400 (EDT), Julius Szelagiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > think via eden board and casetronic case. 12V power supply. > haven't fried it yet in my van where voltage varies between 10.6V and > 16.3V. total cost as an ltsp terminal: $181 + delivery. i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFS Problem

2002-10-17 Thread Michael Hadianto
Wouter, I Fixed that error already, the error is in the /etc/exports like you said thanks Mike > Michael, > > It just happens that I had a comparable problem this morning. Did you > check the /etc/exports file? The lines for LTSP should also point to > 192.168.1.22 > > Wouter > > > On 15-

Re[3]: [Ltsp-discuss] Recovering Server RAM

2002-10-17 Thread Philip A. Roa
Julius, Thanks for the insights. I'm still working out avenues where performance can be affected significantly based on some related factors, then I try to measure it. Some of the obvious areas i could think of as of now are: a. Disk I/O vs. RAM b. (Packets sent) vs. number_of_workstations Curre

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New 'sidecar' install

2002-10-17 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:31:19 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brian, > > Very interesting adventure that you are embarking on. Yeah, I had the choice between being known as 'that guy that used to be married to Linda" or something elseand I researched all the dreams I once had, an

[Ltsp-discuss] Com/USB ports on a workstation for a PDA?

2002-10-17 Thread Shane Machon
Hello All, Forgive me if this is documented or discussed previously in this list, but I have looked into this with few answers. Anyone had any success/experience in getting the local com port to work on an LTSP workstation for connecting a Palm Pilot? More specifically I would like to setup a pa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New 'sidecar' install

2002-10-17 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Brian, think via eden board and casetronic case. 12V power supply. haven't fried it yet in my van where voltage varies between 10.6V and 16.3V. total cost as an ltsp terminal: $181 + delivery. i bought enough to get them shipped free of charge. the sound is awful in ltsp (and great when you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Who uses the "Jammin 125" diskless workstation?

2002-10-17 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Charles, I have 22 of them and they are really very nice. and Jim is very nice ;-) The Jammin-125 is just about perfect out of the box and will be perfect with LTSP 3.1 when it will be automatically configured. I have them spread all over the place for testing - warehouses, offices,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] printer setup

2002-10-17 Thread Randall Craig
Just use cups or lprng as the print server on SuSE. Cups handles socket printing without problems, ie: in /etc/cups/printers.conf DeviceURI socket://ltspclient_name:9100 Location At Foo's desk State

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] printer setup

2002-10-17 Thread Darryl Bond
I have never used SUSE so I am at a bit of a disadvantage. The LTS client is set up to emulate a HP Jetdirect, ie when you have the printer connected to the client and want to print from the server. You have set your server to look for a printer on a Unix box. ie with a print spooler etc. Can yo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New 'sidecar' install

2002-10-17 Thread jam
Brian, Very interesting adventure that you are embarking on. Lots of people use PCI and ISA cards. I know you've been around the LTSP community for quite a long time, so I'm gonna guess that you are using a bootrom that is fairly old. Somewhere, back round Etherboot 4.6.something, the method of

[Ltsp-discuss] New 'sidecar' install

2002-10-17 Thread Brian Fahrlander
I'm getting to the point I might be able to afford/jury-rig a single LTSP workstation. It's part of a whole project I'm working on. I'm getting my gear together to spend the rest of my life from the road- parking wherever business convenience dictates, and sometimes where asthetics dic

[Ltsp-discuss] XFree86 4.2.x on the Jammin-125

2002-10-17 Thread jam
Charles, Good news on the XFree86 4.2 support for the Jammin-125. I pulled down the latest XFree86 sources from the cvs repository, and there it is, a new "geode" xserver driver. I built it last night, and i've been testing it all day, and it works very well. I will put out an update to ltsp_x_

[Ltsp-discuss] Who uses the "Jammin 125" diskless workstation?

2002-10-17 Thread charles.burns
To satisfy a purchase order department, I need some examples of schools/companies/government agencies that use the Jammin 125 workstation from Disklessworkstations.com. If you know of any such place that uses these, or if you use them yourself, please let me know! All purchases of these workst

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and main server logon screen font is too small

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Grubbs
Hi Bhaskar, Thanks for the input. The gdmconfig program I use under Red Hat 8.0 does not have an option to change font sizes. I have used the standard greeter and all 3 graphical greeters with no success. Most of the text is viewable. Sections that are not viewable include the useri

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local apps and DRI

2002-10-17 Thread Ashley
Hi Randall, I run sh /tmp/start_ws from runlevel 3. I'm still testing. tuxracer seems to be the only one of these that wants a framebuffer. Do you know off hand what are the kernel configs for framebuffering? (You do don't you) I'll try a new kernel. I will still need to create the /dev/fb0

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] reason given by server: Permission denied

2002-10-17 Thread wouter . debacker
Julo, I seem to recall that your /etc/dhcpd.conf uses 192.168.0.254 for your LTSP server. The error about the root file system confirms this. Your /etc/export file, however, points to 192.168.0.0 in several locations. IMO if you change those to 192.168.0.254 and restart your nfs server then your m

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2002-10-17 Thread wouter . debacker
Romain, I don't know whether there's a solution to your problem or not. What I do know is that accessing a local floppy with MToolsFM works fine in my classroom. I even like the fact that the floppy has to be Dos formatted. Those who still only have that Windoze stuff at home can at least get at t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local apps and DRI

2002-10-17 Thread Randall Craig
Are you running these aps from a frame buffer or in xwindows? > RUNLEVEL = 3 > > ashley@alban:~ >strace tuxracer > . > . > . > open("/dev/fb0", O_RDWR)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > write(2, "*** tuxracer error: ", 20*** tuxracer error: )= 20 > writ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] back from console

2002-10-17 Thread jam
Jorge, A simple Alt-F2 should get you back. But, beware. Some video drivers don't respond very well to switching in and out of graphics mode. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jorge Ramirez wrote: > Hello there everyone: > > how can i switch from a text console on (tty1)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2002-10-17 Thread Peter Billson
Romain, Well there is always another solution to every problem, just maybe not elegant, easy or tried! :-) I am just starting to muck with the nbd support for a new project but the tying the user to a machine seems to be so that the server knows which workstations block device to use when

[Ltsp-discuss] back from console

2002-10-17 Thread Jorge Ramirez
Hello there everyone: how can i switch from a text console on (tty1) to my X console on (tty2) if i try (ctrl-alt-F2), my monitor stops recieving video and just works if i kill that X with ctrl-alt-backspace i can swith to any other text console any ideas? Jorge, Thanks, in advance. -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Colision when using ltsp

2002-10-17 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Joyse, dump the hubs, start using switches. julius On 17 Oct 2002, Joyce LAMBERT wrote: > Hello > > One big probleme with using ltsp > > When ltsp is used, i can notice lots colision when using ltsp. More tere > are worstation working and more colision i have. > > So with 4 worstation, th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Signature Capture

2002-10-17 Thread Peter Billson
Joseph, I suppose it depends on the type of device but - at least in theory - you should be able to access anything. I access USB floppy drives attached to the workstations and you can also access USB printers. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Cons

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Colision when using ltsp

2002-10-17 Thread Bhaskar S. Manda
On 17 Oct 2002 17:21:13 +, Joyce LAMBERT wrote > When ltsp is used, i can notice lots colision when using ltsp. More tere > are worstation working and more colision i have. > > So with 4 worstation, the network become realy slowly and can't be used. This could be a faulty network configuratio

[Ltsp-discuss] local apps and DRI

2002-10-17 Thread Ashley
Hi list, I'm running ltsp 3.0.7 on a SuSE 7.3 server. I'm trying to configure various games which require hardware rendering to run locally on my test client. Client vga card is 3dfx Voodoo3. I've got gears working as a local app. The others I'm trying are bzflag, tuxracer, and tuxkart. Afte

[Ltsp-discuss] Odd Situation

2002-10-17 Thread Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi
Hello all, I am facing an odd situation here! I am trying to boot a linux client using LTSP and a Windows 2K Server, as the server computer. Mapping the ext2 partition through NTFS, I have already succeded to start up the client in run level 3 (changing the ltsp.conf). But, when the */tmp/st

[Ltsp-discuss] Bandwidth

2002-10-17 Thread Joseph
Would a t1 of bandwidth handle 6 workstations over ltsp? -- respectfully, Joseph - (606) 477-2355 x140 == --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that

[Ltsp-discuss] Signature Capture

2002-10-17 Thread Joseph
Any ideas whether a person could put a usb/serial device on the ltsp client and see it on the server? -- respectfully, Joseph - (606) 477-2355 x140 == --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will

[Ltsp-discuss] Windows managers

2002-10-17 Thread Simone Tommasi
Hi everybody, I'm really a newbie in Linux (is decided to learn it to follow the LTSP) so sorry for my very basic question. I installed linux "empty" then installed XFree86 and then LTSP and it works perfetly. After that I decided to install KDE and LTSP stop working (Grey background with "X" arrow

[Ltsp-discuss] Colision when using ltsp

2002-10-17 Thread Joyce LAMBERT
Hello One big probleme with using ltsp When ltsp is used, i can notice lots colision when using ltsp. More tere are worstation working and more colision i have. So with 4 worstation, the network become realy slowly and can't be used. As someone have this pb or some understand what can the netw

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't open modules.dep

2002-10-17 Thread John Hammen
Jim, thanks again for your help. Copying the /lib/modules/2.4.19 tree over solved the problem, I didn't even need to run depmod as the modules.dep file was already there, it seems to be created as part of the "make modules_install" target during the kernel compilation phase. This step is indeed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] FW: LTSP and main server logon screen font is too small

2002-10-17 Thread Bhaskar S. Manda
> setup my first LTSP system. I have one problem. The font size for > the main logon screen for the main system and the terminal server > are so small that each letter appears as a dot on the screen. What > can I do to fix the font size? If you are using gdm, fire up gdmconfig and customize it.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't open modules.dep

2002-10-17 Thread jam
John, The fact that your root/lib/modules is empty is normal. The buildk script will create a ramdisk filesystem, copy the contents of the ltsp_initrd_kit/root into that new ram filesystem. It will then copy the modules from /lib/modules/2.4.19, and it will create the modules.dep file. Then, tha

[Ltsp-discuss] Permission Denied

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Grubbs
Hey Julo! I may have the answer to your proplem with Permission Denied. I fixed the same problem under Red Hat Linux 8.0 last night. I just signed up on the mailing list today. The archive cut off your full e-mail address. All I got was: julo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike ---

[Ltsp-discuss] FW: LTSP and main server logon screen font is too small

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Grubbs
I forgot to mention... I am running Red Hat Linux 8.0. The error occurred after I installed the first two RPMs. ltsp_core-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm ltsp_kernel-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm screen font too small here... I also installed the following RPMs later. ltsp_x_core-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm ltsp_x_fonts-3.0.0-0.i386

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] reason given by server: Permission denied - some progress

2002-10-17 Thread julo
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Julo, > > Is the workstation listed in the /etc/hosts file ? > > If not, that would cause the 'Permission denied' error. Yes, it is: The progress is about soft link: I had soft link /opt/ltsp/i368 -> /3/opt/ltsp/i368 So I just remove

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and main server logon screen font is too small

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Grubbs
Hello! I have been working with Linux for 2 months now. I have successfully setup my first LTSP system. I have one problem. The font size for the main logon screen for the main system and the terminal server are so small that each letter appears as a dot on the screen. What can I do to fix

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't open modules.dep

2002-10-17 Thread John Hammen
Thanks for your quick reply. I did indeed build my own kernel, but from what I got out of the parallel dhcp recipe, it seemed to be enough to place the new kernel where tftp can get at it and edit dhcpd.conf to point the clients to the new image, but it doesn't say anything about the modules.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd

2002-10-17 Thread Romain Surleau
Well, as I had no answer, I suppose there is no other solution. If someone could at least answer "There is no solution to your problem", it would be clear for me, and I'd use floppy with MToolsFM, as it works quite well. Thanks. Romain Surleau. > Hello, > > I am looking for a way to offer flopp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] reason given by server: Permission denied

2002-10-17 Thread julo
On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:17, you wrote: > julo wrote: > >Hi > > > >I'm new to ltsp and i get stuck with probably nfs on the server. > >After message on the terminal: > >" > >mounting root file system: /opt/ltsp/i386 from > >mount: 192.168.0.254:/opt.ltsp/i386 failed, reason given by server:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] User on workstation can stop or restart theserver

2002-10-17 Thread Joyce LAMBERT
OK Thank you for this help I have always done this but in fact: When i tried this i was loged with the same username on the workstation and on the server so restart and shutdown where enable. If i am loged with another username on the station, NO PB Thanks Le mer 16/10/2002 à 18:26, John McCre

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] reason given by server: Permission denied

2002-10-17 Thread jam
Julo, Is the workstation listed in the /etc/hosts file ? If not, that would cause the 'Permission denied' error. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, julo wrote: > On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:17, you wrote: > > julo wrote: > > >Hi > > > > > >I'm new to ltsp and i get stuc

Re[2]: [Ltsp-discuss] Recovering Server RAM

2002-10-17 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Philip, I always admire people that go about finding things in a controlled, engeneering way. Then I go and do it quick and sloppy ;-) The quick way to estimate minimum memory need is to run top and look at actual memory usage. when the buffer size drops below n megabytes, where n i

[Ltsp-discuss] OpenMosix "Disabling DFSA" on boot ??

2002-10-17 Thread Jesper Berth
Hi I discovered that when my workstations boot it disables DFSA This isn't right how can i get it to eneble it on startup Jesper Berth --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that

[Ltsp-discuss] OpenMosix Again

2002-10-17 Thread Jesper Berth
hi i am still trying to get my openmosix to run on my Ltsp But i am having some problems with my kernel I have enebled openmosix process migration openmosix filesystem And disabled kernel Debugging But i can't find the following Kernel Diagnostics, Direct File-System Access Were do

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-MOSIX & Redhat 8.0

2002-10-17 Thread J . Wieder
Hy Have somebody tested to install LTSP-MOSIX and Redhat 8.0? cheers, Julian -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! --- This sf.net email is sponsored

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP ebuild for Gentoo broken?

2002-10-17 Thread Kim Leandersson
Maybe it's because I'm a total newbie to this but I still can't get it to work. I tried with the digest Tom Ribbens sent and with the new tarball. Both fail during the emerge phase. This time I think it's because some files it needs isn't available. Anything I can do or shall I just sit and wait f

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP ebuild for Gentoo broken?

2002-10-17 Thread Andres Toomsalu
Hi Mike, Gentoo ltsp ebuild is not yet even in portage cvs...its totally unofficial. It can be downloaded from www.pfm.ee/gentoo currently. If you unpack the tarball under /usr/portage/net-misc you have to understand that next time you will do 'emerge rsync' it will be also gone from your portage