[Ltsp-discuss] VMware and ltsp workstations

2002-08-15 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I have vmware-workstation-3.0 installed on the server and running fine. When I try to start/install a virtual OS on a ltsp-workstation I got an error message saying: Failled to determine language-specific keyboard mapping : Failled to initialize mouse-keyboard-screen control. I've se

[Ltsp-discuss] Why not a full linux install for the ltsp workstations ?

2002-08-12 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I would like to know why does ltsp use a small linux installation in /opt/ltsp/i386 ? Wouldn't it be simpler for local aplications if I do a full installation in a spare partition that I can start on the server to update or do simple aplication installation (using utilitys like apt-get, rpm ...) a

[Ltsp-discuss] How to shut down ?

2002-07-31 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
The workstation now works fine, but I don't know how to shutdown the workstation. The options from kde/qvwm or kdm are trying to shutdown the server, not the workstation. Eaven starting the workstation in level 3, the halt/init 6 commands have no efect. Just turning the workstation off doesn't se

[Ltsp-discuss] XDM or KDM ?

2002-07-25 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
My distribution (Conectiva 7.0) is currently not rely suported by LTSP I followed the porting_guide I got reasonable templates, but I must have done something wrong as I realy don't understand how xdm/kdm works. At my server the X starts and brings the KDM login srceen. I searched my server and al

[Ltsp-discuss] XDM/KDM error

2002-07-25 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
Finaly I got a gray screen whith a X mouse cursor, but no login. At Alt-F1 on the workstation I got the error: XDM: too many retrasmitions The server runs X and uses KDM so I tryed ps -fax|grep dm 2314 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon 2318 ?R 4:00 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X -

[Ltsp-discuss] Unable to configure X for workstation

2002-07-25 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I'm still unable to get a working configuration fo X at the workstation. It has a Trident TGUI9440-1 video adapter and an old VGA monitor. I tryed XF86_SVGA with 8 bit color that tryed to start but got an gray flicker video in 640x480. Then I tryed XF86_VGA16 with 4 bit color an I got an error

[Ltsp-discuss] How to configure XFree for the workstation

2002-07-25 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I miss some way to run Xconfigurator on the workstation and try/guess the right options. With the Xserver=auto I got a incompatible configuration that lets my workstation looping in an atempt to start X and the only way to stop it is on the power bottom. I couldn't switch back to with CTR-ALT-F2 t

[Ltsp-discuss] Porting to Conectiva 7.0/8.0

2002-07-24 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
Since I needed it, I've gone thru the porting_guid.txt and made some changes to the existing conectiva.sh and added the links conectiva-7.0.sh and conectiva-8.0.sh to it. It works for 7.0 and couldn't test it for 8.0 now but I think it would. Is there any interest in reviewing my changes and updat

[Ltsp-discuss] Access and Log problems

2002-07-24 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I'm trying ltsp for the 1st time Eaven my distro (Conective 7.0) not showing up as supporte i've been able to generate apropriate templates, run ltsp_initialize, generate a boot disk for my test workstation/nic and got all needed service to run. 1st try: When I tried to boot the workstation (ws001

[Ltsp-discuss] Conectiva 7.0/8.0 distr

2002-07-23 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
How can I install LTSP-3.05 on a server with Conectiva Linux 7.0/8.0 ? I tried the RPM that normaly works (it's a distribution similar to RedHat) but I got the folloing message on the RPM command: [root@server ltsp]# rpm -Uhv ltsp_core-3.0.5-0.i386.rpm Preparing...#