Re: [Ltsp-discuss] studying the LTSP network and memory usage behavior

2004-10-28 Thread jef peeraer
On vrijdag 29 oktober 2004 02:09, duan wrote: > Hi > > I plan to run a little study on the behavior of LTSP environment in > terms of CPU utilization, memory utilization and network flow/traffic > during booting up, applications loading, etc. Tools that I plan to use > are sar, vmstat maybe I have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Push Item to Desktop Problem

2004-10-28 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2004 20:49 schrieb Liam Marshall: > I believe the problem I am having Pushing Items to Desktops is related > to the fact that the majority of my users home directories are NOT > directly off of the Home directory. Instead they are off of branches in > the home directory >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread jam
Hi > CPH, > > there's 2 issues keeping us from creating a 2.6 kernel package for LTSP. > > 1) There's no nfs-swap patch available for the 2.6.x kernel tree. > > 2) There's not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do. > > > As for advantages in using the 2.6 kernel on the clie

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3]

2004-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi > In Xmms, under Audio I/O Plugins I had selected CD Audio > Player 1.2.7 [libcdaudio.so]. > under Output Plugin I had OSS Driver 1.2.7 [libOSS.so] You will need to either change the output plugin to the network sound system you use (e.g. nasd or esd), or (if you use KDE) set it to ar

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [mharv] ~ # uname -a > Linux mharv 2.6.7 #6 Fri Oct 15 09:13:02 UTC 2004 i686 unknown > > It does work beatifully. I did need it. If I can get the mod-utils to > work I'll contribute it all back. At the mo I'm stuck with no modules !! Use module-init

[Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3]

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Chalifour
Andrew, In Xmms, under Audio I/O Plugins I had selected CD Audio Player 1.2.7 [libcdaudio.so]. under Output Plugin I had OSS Driver 1.2.7 [libOSS.so] I'll give esd a try later on this evening, Thanks for you suggestions, Bob Chalifour --- Begin Message --- Hi > I am trying to figure out why s

[Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3]

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Chalifour
Andrew, under Audio I/O Plugins I had selected CD Audio Player 1.2.7 [libcdaudio.so]. under Output Plugin I had OSS Driver 1.2.7 [libOSS.so] I give esd a try later on this evening, Thanks for you suggestions, Bob Chalifour --- Begin Message --- Hi > I am trying to figure out why sound isn't

[Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3]

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Chalifour
Jim, I checked and found that file you mentioned. I've pasted a copy below, just in case you can spot some problems with it. Thanks for your help, Bob Chalifour [EMAIL PROTECTED] bob]# cat /etc/profile.d/ltsp-sound.sh #!/bin/sh # LTSP sound v0.3 for LTSP => v3.0.0 # This package is released u

[Ltsp-discuss] studying the LTSP network and memory usage behavior

2004-10-28 Thread duan
Hi I plan to run a little study on the behavior of LTSP environment in terms of CPU utilization, memory utilization and network flow/traffic during booting up, applications loading, etc. Tools that I plan to use are sar, vmstat maybe I have to plot some graphs to present data nicely. I am just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client boots up very slow, others fine

2004-10-28 Thread duan
The process crawls from 1-5. Normally booting up takes 20-30 seconds. By "slow" it takes more than a minute to get to the login screen. It got there but painfully slow..:) Thanks Peter Billson wrote: Duan, You need to define "slow?" 1) Slow during the PXE part of boot up? 2) Slow during the DH

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3

2004-10-28 Thread Jim McQuillan
Bob, Do you have a script called /etc/profile.d/ltsp-sound.sh ? That script should setup some environment variables for your session, so that xmms and other applications will know to re-direct the sound to your workstation. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Bob Chalifour wr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3

2004-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi > I am trying to figure out why sound isn't working with > ltsp 3 on my Mandrake 9.1 system. When I play a music file > using xmms when logged onto ws001 the sound comes out of > the server's speakers rather than the ws001 speakers.I've > check a lot of things (see below) and can't se

[Ltsp-discuss] problem getting sound going with ltsp 3

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Chalifour
I am trying to figure out why sound isn't working with ltsp 3 on my Mandrake 9.1 system. When I play a music file using xmms when logged onto ws001 the sound comes out of the server's speakers rather than the ws001 speakers.I've check a lot of things (see below) and can't seem to figured it out. Wo

[Ltsp-discuss] Screen:/dev/vc/1 - SCREEN_SCRIPT: #startx not found!

2004-10-28 Thread Koursk
All, I've the following error message during the ltsp booting process: Screen:/dev/vc/1 - SCREEN_SCRIPT: #startx not found! And it hangs up ! Very strange, because everything was up and running correctly, I did several test -switch on/off of the work station- and now I've this error message.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread Jim McQuillan
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, CPH wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:48, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > CPH, > > Hi Jim, > > > there's 2 issues keeping us from creating a 2.6 kernel package for LTSP. > > > > 1) There's no nfs-swap patch available for the 2.6.x kernel tree. > But as a preliminary test, yo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] AFTER TFTP downloads kernel. Still the same on any kernel image.

2004-10-28 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2004 23:36 schrieb PaweÅ StochliÅski: > Hi everyone i've been trying to boot up node for 2 days via etherboot. > Well, i've almost tried all of Your kernels in download zone, of course i > have also tested my compilations of kernels - still nothing. > > I have generated th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread CPH
On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:48, Jim McQuillan wrote: > CPH, Hi Jim, > there's 2 issues keeping us from creating a 2.6 kernel package for LTSP. > > 1) There's no nfs-swap patch available for the 2.6.x kernel tree. But as a preliminary test, you may not need nfs-swap. However am I right in thi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] That darned backspace key!

2004-10-28 Thread Rita Gibson
CPH wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:09, Lanman wrote: Has anyone found a way to re-activate the backspace key on the thin-clients? For some reason, that dad-burned problem is still here and it is affecting the entire desktop environment, including the login screen. It seems to be an acces

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread Jim McQuillan
CPH, there's 2 issues keeping us from creating a 2.6 kernel package for LTSP. 1) There's no nfs-swap patch available for the 2.6.x kernel tree. 2) There's not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do. As for advantages in using the 2.6 kernel on the client, nobody has given me

[Ltsp-discuss] AFTER TFTP downloads kernel. Still the same on any kernel image.

2004-10-28 Thread Paweł Stochliński
Hi everyone  i've been trying to boot up node for 2 days via etherboot. Well, i've almost tried all of Your kernels in download zone, of course i have also tested my compilations of kernels - still nothing.   I have generated the COM file in rom-o-matic with support for my 3c509 ISA 10bas

[Ltsp-discuss] Fwd: Spam has attacked!

2004-10-28 Thread CPH
Can someone please remove this person from the mailing list as their answer to spam is to produce even more spam! Thanks CPH --- Begin Message --- Hello! I'm sorry for the trouble, but this email address is now shut off. Spam has now dominated my server and it wasn't worth looking through 2000

[Ltsp-discuss] Linux 2.6

2004-10-28 Thread CPH
I have not seen this mentioned on the list so far, so I was wondering what the status (or outlook) is for using 2.6 on thin clients ? Is there know issues for why it is not currently being used ? Would there be significant advantages in using it ? Is anyone currently using it ? Thanks CPH -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCSI hard drive speed

2004-10-28 Thread Patrick Rea
On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:10 am, Liam Marshall wrote: > For next year, or next term if I am lucky, I am thinking of upgrading > the hard drives. Currently using an old IBM SCSI drive (9gb) for /root > and a Seagate SCSI (18 gb and 5400 rpm) for /home /opt and /swap. > > Would 11000, or 15000

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCSI hard drive speed

2004-10-28 Thread A.J. Venter
On Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:19, Ken Cobler wrote: > Liam Marshall wrote: > > I have upgraded as far as I can go for this year. Performance is > > acceptable, except that more than 2 instances of thin clients running > > tux type or tux math bogs entire system down. Everything else > > functio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] That darned backspace key!

2004-10-28 Thread CPH
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:09, Lanman wrote: > Has anyone found a way to re-activate the backspace key on the > thin-clients? For some reason, that dad-burned problem is still here and > it is affecting the entire desktop environment, including the login screen. > > It seems to be an access-co

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ICA Client and LTSP

2004-10-28 Thread Jim McQuillan
Peter, The syntax you showed will work with LTSP-4.1, but not with LTSP-4.0. Time to upgrade, I guess. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, icera-it wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone have any experience of running an rdesktop connection on one > screen and the standard ltsp X deskt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCSI hard drive speed

2004-10-28 Thread Ken Cobler
Liam Marshall wrote: I have upgraded as far as I can go for this year. Performance is acceptable, except that more than 2 instances of thin clients running tux type or tux math bogs entire system down. Everything else functions well. Staroffice and FireFox running simultaneously on 25+ machi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client boots up very slow, others fine

2004-10-28 Thread Peter Billson
Duan, You need to define "slow?" 1) Slow during the PXE part of boot up? 2) Slow during the DHCP part of boot up? 3) Slow downloading the kernel? 4) Slow uncompressing the kernel? 5) Slow starting the GUI? 1-3 could be network issues 4-5 is probably hardware Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Inte

[Ltsp-discuss] ICA Client and LTSP

2004-10-28 Thread icera-it
Hi Does anyone have any experience of running an rdesktop connection on one screen and the standard ltsp X desktop on another so that you can switch between them with a Ctrl-Alt-F1/2 keypress. We run ltsp v4.0 but soon to upgrade to 4.1, windows 2003 server running citrix metaframe. I imagine the