Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
> There's already a bug on this. I opened it a couple of years ago. > >https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4942 > > But, what's the Xserver to do? Deny allocating any ram to the Xclient? > that's what the XRAMPERC does. > I 100% agree with Jim but I however do not 100% agree

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SmartBoard

2007-09-06 Thread Sudev Barar
On 07/09/07, Lance Jahnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I contacted Smart Tech and this is what they said: > > "We have not had any inquiries about a Linux Terminal Server before. The 600 > series boards would use the /dev/usb/hiddev as the device driver for > communication for touch on the SMART

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SmartBoard

2007-09-06 Thread Lance Jahnig
I contacted Smart Tech and this is what they said: "We have not had any inquiries about a Linux Terminal Server before. The 600 series boards would use the /dev/usb/hiddev as the device driver for communication for touch on the SMART Board. You would have to make sure the mappings from the te

[Ltsp-discuss] squid dansguardian problem

2007-09-06 Thread scott steibel
I am trying to use squid as a proxy server so I can use dansguardian as a web filter. I am using centos 5 and squid 2.6. I edited the squid.conf as follows: http_port 127.0.0.1:3128 transparent Then edited the dansguardian.conf file as follows: filterip = 127.0.0.1 filterport = 8080 proxyi

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Unable to Login to server Remotely

2007-09-06 Thread Academic Affairs
Michael Kosovic wrote: > If any other ideas come through I will be very open to suggestions. > > Thanks! > > Michael Kosovic I just had this problem, also. As a qualifier to the steps I took, I will let you know that I run KDE on openSUSE 10.2 using LTSP 4.x. After looking around for awhile

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kronebusch
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:27:44 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote > Hi Scott, > > Nice work! In the mean time, we need to add the code: Ondrej, check out the post I forwarded to the list a few minutes ago. It is a step by step to modify an Edubuntu installation to accept the new XRAMPERC= variable in

[Ltsp-discuss] Fw: How to keep X from consuming all available client RAM

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kronebusch
-- Forwarded Message --- From: "Jim Kronebusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:03:04 -0500 Subject: How to keep X from consuming all available client RAM Here is another tip provided by Scott Balnaeves. If you are having trouble with an applic

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kronebusch
> plus, i'll open a new bugzilla with ff about the pixmap issue or check > the status of > the current x-carsh-pixmaps bug (if one present ?) I opened the following two bugs today, one with Ubuntu in Launchpad and the other with Mozilla in bugzilla to address this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Jim McQuillan
Nadav Kavalerchik wrote: > i think i solved it with all of your helpful advices! , thanks you :-) > > the script that Ondrej suggested i use was already in startx but was > never used by me. > so i set the XRAMPERC to 80 and found out that when i overload FF with > 20 tabs that hold flash object

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Nadav Kavalerchik
i think i solved it with all of your helpful advices! , thanks you :-) the script that Ondrej suggested i use was already in startx but was never used by me. so i set the XRAMPERC to 80 and found out that when i overload FF with 20 tabs that hold flash objects and heavy graphics the FF crashes alo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 7.04 & LTSP5 & rdesktop

2007-09-06 Thread Hakan Kutucu
No it is not so easy to solve rdesktop problem with ltsp by using apt-get install rdesktop. Ubuntu has rdesktop. I installed rdesktop in LTSP server. But rdesktop has many dependencies and modules etc. I couldn't succeed. Mr. Hakan Kutucu Science Faculty, Izmir Institute of Technology Gulbahceko

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Nadav Kavalerchik
thank you for the responses :-) i'm using fc6 with ltsp 4.2 so i'll check and see if the X-anti-crash script is in place and if not add it. plus, i'll open a new bugzilla with ff about the pixmap issue or check the status of the current x-carsh-pixmaps bug (if one present ?) we try to use opera

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Talking about screen.d scripts... in the mean time, would it be possible > for Gutsy to contain some more interesting things? Like ssh or startnx > scripts. I can provide them if anyone is interested... We're past UVF in gutsy, so it'd have to wait for gutsy+1, but there'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi Scott, Nice work! In the mean time, we need to add the code: XMEM=0 while read TYPE VALUE UNITS; do case ${TYPE} in MemFree:|SwapFree:) XMEM=$((${XMEM} + ${VALUE})) ;; esac done < /proc/meminfo XMEM=$((${XMEM} * ${XRAMPERC:-90} / 100)) echo " X server limited to ${

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > I do not understand why is this code not available in ltsp-5. It was > very useful thing! Because we forgot, or no one had time, to add it in. > Increasing the swap is not a solution - bring the code I mentioned back! https://code.launchpad.net/~sbalneav/ltsp/scotts-gut

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 (ubuntu) & DHCP options

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
Jim McQuillan wrote: > Yes, it is a bug. Specifically, the Ubuntu branch of LTSP-5 doesn't > handle a root-path with the IP address in it. The Debian branch has > been fixed. If it hasn't been fixed in Ubuntu yet, hopefully it will be > soon. It was fixed at the same time in Ubuntu. It wil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 7.04 & LTSP5 & rdesktop

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Another bug in LTSP-5 (there is quite many of them, unfortunately, because it is very nice move forward), but this one is easy to solve - you need to install rdesktop binary to the LTSP environment - something like apt-get install rdesktop. Ondrej Hakan Kutucu wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I hav

[Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 7.04 & LTSP5 & rdesktop

2007-09-06 Thread Hakan Kutucu
Hi Everybody, I have installed last version of Ubuntu and LTSP 5. All clients boot from the server normally. There is an windows server in the LAN. I would like to connect it via rdesktop from clients. But when I change lts.conf as "SCREEN_04= rdesktop 192.168.0.1" it doesn't work. What is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
The problem is in FF consuming all available memory on the client for pixmaps. In LTSP 4.2 X startup scripts there was a code that limited the X server memory to what was actually accessible by the thin client. This code made the X server stable because otherwise once the FF consumes all available

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fuse & ltspfs question

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for the answers, but I would say > 1. My experience says that clients with less that 512Mb RAM suffer when > used for heavy web browsing - firefox will eat majority of the memory > for pixmaps and if you do not have enough, well The vast majority

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Kronebusch
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:19:27 +0300, Nadav Kavalerchik wrote > Hi :-) > > we use firefox 2.0.0.6 on terminal's that have Intel i810 graphic display > cards. we experience frequent crashes of X when browsing the net, on random > sites. > > using opera / konqueror we never have problems, > but we m

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread joe auerbach
That distro are you using? I've been having this lately with dapper's firefox. I think it has something to do with tabbed browsing, but I can't figure out what yet. Nadav Kavalerchik wrote: >Hi :-) > >we use firefox 2.0.0.6 on terminal's that have Intel i810 graphic display >cards. >we exper

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Blinn
I "solved" (delayed) the problem by using ltspswapd and a 128M swap file. Michael Nadav Kavalerchik wrote: > Hi :-) > > we use firefox 2.0.0.6 on terminal's that have Intel i810 graphic display > cards. > we experience frequent crashes of X when browsing the net, on random sites. > > using oper

[Ltsp-discuss] firefox crashes randomly when i810 xorg driver is used

2007-09-06 Thread Nadav Kavalerchik
Hi :-) we use firefox 2.0.0.6 on terminal's that have Intel i810 graphic display cards. we experience frequent crashes of X when browsing the net, on random sites. using opera / konqueror we never have problems, but we miss some of the features firefox has :-( i remember some threads about this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fuse & ltspfs question

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi Scott, Thanks for the answers, but I would say 1. My experience says that clients with less that 512Mb RAM suffer when used for heavy web browsing - firefox will eat majority of the memory for pixmaps and if you do not have enough, well 2. NFS (till v.3) is a stateless protocol - the server

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 (ubuntu) & DHCP options

2007-09-06 Thread Jim McQuillan
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Hi all, > > I was using (and still use) ltsp 4.2 which expected dhcp root-path > option in format > "server_IP:/nfs_root_share". > Also documentation refers to this format, but the new ltsp5.0, on Ubuntu > expect only > "/nfs_root_share" format of this option (the previo

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 (ubuntu) & DHCP options

2007-09-06 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi all, I was using (and still use) ltsp 4.2 which expected dhcp root-path option in format "server_IP:/nfs_root_share". Also documentation refers to this format, but the new ltsp5.0, on Ubuntu expect only "/nfs_root_share" format of this option (the previous fails). The IP of the NFS server is ta