Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian 7 LTSP Pulseaudio possible fixes

2013-06-28 Thread John McMonagle
Tom Works great :-) Thanks! John On Friday, June 28, 2013 09:22:39 am Tom Wallis wrote: Dear All: I may have found some solutions for the Pulseaudio problems on Debian 7 LTSP clients. Several people on this list have posted about this with their solutions. I found this to be very

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian 7 thin client audio

2013-06-14 Thread John McMonagle
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 03:03:29 pm (UNTRUSTED, sender ltsp-discuss- boun...@lists.sourceforge.net is not authenticated) wrote: On Friday, June 07, 2013 10:05:50 pm Michael Pope wrote: I've just setup a Debian 7 LTSP server with some thin clients I have pulseaudio libasound2-plugins

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian 7 thin client audio

2013-06-12 Thread John McMonagle
On Friday, June 07, 2013 10:05:50 pm Michael Pope wrote: I've just setup a Debian 7 LTSP server with some thin clients I have pulseaudio libasound2-plugins installed in the client image (and have rebuilt it). I'm not getting sound from the client. I tried putting this into the client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] automatic shutdown of terminals

2012-03-19 Thread John McMonagle
Found another error :-( Need full path for shutdown. I had tested from command line via ssh and though it was OK. This script really works :-) #!/bin/bash #install xprintidle cron #add cron entry to lts.conf export DISPLAY=:7 export XAUTHORITY=`ps -ef|grep xinit |grep -v grep|cut -d -f 26`

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] automatic shutdown of terminals

2012-03-19 Thread John McMonagle
On Monday 19 March 2012 03:32:43 pm David Burgess wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2012 04:27:49 pm (UNTRUSTED, sender ltsp-discuss-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net is not authenticated) wrote: I just put together a simple system to automatically shut down terminals after 90 minutes of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Akonadi and ltsp

2012-03-16 Thread John McMonagle
On Monday, March 12, 2012 05:21:25 am Xavier Brochard wrote: Le vendredi 9 mars 2012 21:03:05 John McMonagle, vous avez écrit : I'm getting debian squeeze kde4 setup to work with ltsp. It seems silly to run a separate mysql server instance for each running use. Is it practical to use one

[Ltsp-discuss] automatic shutdown of terminals

2012-03-15 Thread John McMonagle
I just put together a simple system to automatically shut down terminals after 90 minutes of inactivity. My ltsp5 is on debian squeeze. install cron and xprintidle. I put script idleoff script in /usr/local/sbin . #!/bin/bash #install xprintidle and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] automatic shutdown of terminals

2012-03-15 Thread John McMonagle
Opps. Have an extra 60 in my time limit. it should be 540. John On Thursday 15 March 2012 04:27:49 pm (UNTRUSTED, sender ltsp-discuss-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net is not authenticated) wrote: I just put together a simple system to automatically shut down terminals after 90 minutes of

[Ltsp-discuss] Akonadi and ltsp

2012-03-09 Thread John McMonagle
I'm getting debian squeeze kde4 setup to work with ltsp. It seems silly to run a separate mysql server instance for each running use. Is it practical to use one mysql server for all users? I did a peek at the tables and and it does not look like it's structured to deal with multiple users in a

[Ltsp-discuss] nvidia

2011-06-09 Thread John McMonagle
I'm working on upgrade of ltsp clients from debian lenny to squeeze. Lenny did not have nvidia kernel driver as i486 so had to use i686 kernel and some of our terminals can not run i686 so had had to do 2 chroots. Notice that squeeze has i486 nvidia kernel drivers. Can I now run them all in

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp upgrade questions

2011-06-02 Thread John McMonagle
We are currently running Debian Lenny and will be slowly upgrading to squeeze. All of our offices are setup with one server running the application software and another running bind, dhcp nfs, tftp etc for running the ltsp clients. The old ltsp version is 5.1.10-2 New version is 5.2.4-2 Have

[Ltsp-discuss] saned setup ltsp5

2009-10-26 Thread John McMonagle
I recently set up a scanner in ltsp5 using debian lenny and ltsp backports for lenny. I installed sane-utils that sets up saned as a daemon. This works fine but it starts up saned on all workstations. On ltsp 4.2 there was a method to only start up inetd with saned support on only the

[Ltsp-discuss] sound permissions

2009-10-26 Thread John McMonagle
I have set up a couple workstations with sound and they seem to be working fine. To work a user needs to be in audio group. We have a lots of users, 5 ltsp servers and authenticate via ldap. For the tests have just added user to local audio group. Only expect to have a small percentage of the

[Ltsp-discuss] ZOTAC IONITX-B-E

2009-10-20 Thread John McMonagle
I purchased a ZOTAC IONITX-B-E to test for use with ltsp5. Works well but there are some issues. Installed with lenny and ltsp backports. As is comes up with vesa driver. Gives one X but not good enough. Trying to force nv does not work. Loaded nvidia driver from lenny non-free. This works

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ZOTAC IONITX-B-E

2009-10-20 Thread John McMonagle
Asmo Another chroot seems extreme but I can't think of anything else :-( Thanks John On Tuesday 20 October 2009 03:41:17 pm Asmo Koskinen wrote: John McMonagle kirjoitti: Any way to deal with this? Try this howto (by me): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon Best

[Ltsp-discuss] Devon 6040b

2008-10-13 Thread John McMonagle
Anyone know if the Devon 6040b is compatible with ltsp 4.2? John begin:vcard fn:John McMonagle n:McMonagle;John org:Advocap Inc adr;dom:;;2929 Harrison St;Oshkosh;WI;54936 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:IT Manager tel;work:920-426-0150 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.advocap.org

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM and KDE, language chooser?

2008-05-23 Thread John McMonagle
of the login of ldm? So far I am only able to change the theme... But that's useless. If not I may try this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Updated_Version_For_Feisty ltspfs and gdm. I don't know if this will have any effects on pulseaudio - do you? thanks peter 2008/5/22 John McMonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM and KDE, language chooser?

2008-05-22 Thread John McMonagle
/LTSPLoginAndSessionHandling). There is no difference between the configurations of the workstations - all debian etch witch same language and session support. So I think it can be defined locally in the ltsp environment (chroot). Thank you very much for your help -- John McMonagle IT Manager

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm problems with debian etch.

2008-05-22 Thread John McMonagle
seems just too broken. I'm going to try switching my efforts to lenny on the terminals. It acts like the same sshutils.c problems are in lenny. I need to set up a lenny development environment as I need to stick to etch on my servers for quite a while. John John McMonagle wrote: Have 2

[Ltsp-discuss] ldm problems with debian etch.

2008-05-13 Thread John McMonagle
switching. John -- John McMonagle IT Manager Advocap Inc. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm problems with debian etch.

2008-05-13 Thread John McMonagle
. Local devices and sound work, it's the one think keeping from switching. John -- John McMonagle IT Manager Advocap Inc. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm problems with debian etch.

2008-05-13 Thread John McMonagle
John McMonagle wrote: I got the ldm sources from etch-ltsp-backports. Sure looks like it's dependent on gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks. I'll take a stab at changing the theme to something that exists. Hopefully it doesn't require understanding gtk :-) There are themes that are installed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm problems with debian etch.

2008-05-13 Thread John McMonagle
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008, John McMonagle wrote: Peter I think I had done that. I did it again to make sure. I do think it's presumptuous to assume everything is on the same server. In true in this case it is. It works if I give the correct user id and password. It locks

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian ltsp5

2008-02-13 Thread John McMonagle
-3_i386.deb? I do not see LDM_DIRECTX in any scripts. LOCALDEV seems to work. Under gnome an icon is created on the desktop. Under kde no dektop icon is created but it mounted under /media/$USER. Can I get a desktop icon created under kde? Thanks. John -- John McMonagle IT Manager

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian ltsp5

2008-02-13 Thread John McMonagle
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 09:49 -0600 schrieb John McMonagle: As to the device icons in kde found this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ltspfs-virtual-hal-devices that will still take a while unless someone steps up and helps out

[Ltsp-discuss] debian ltsp5

2008-02-12 Thread John McMonagle
no dektop icon is created but it mounted under /media/$USER. Can I get a desktop icon created under kde? Thanks. John -- John McMonagle IT Manager Advocap Inc. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

[Ltsp-discuss] xorg.conf problem in ltsp5 on debian etch

2007-09-09 Thread John McMonagle
Probably should be a bug report but do not know where it goes. I'm trying to test ltsp5 with debian etch. I want to be able to do local media so I followed the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto The problem is the BusID in ltsp.org is wrong. Oddly it's the proper value for the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X crash: multiple keyboard layouts on FC5 - SOLVED

2006-09-12 Thread John McMonagle
Just discovered that while can now change keyboard setup in kde can no longer change sessions with ctl-alt-f2 . Verified that if I revert to the old xkb directory then ctl-alt-f2 works. My guess its because sarge uses xfree86 and ltsp uses xorg. Any ideas? John John McMonagle wrote: Works

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X crash: multiple keyboard layouts on FC5 - SOLVED

2006-09-12 Thread John McMonagle
${XKBLAYOUT:-us} EndSection That makes it work :-) I'll try it on a real system tomorrow. Again this is sarge that uses xfree86. Is it possible to put setting of XkbRules in lts.conf ? John John McMonagle wrote: Just discovered that while can now change keyboard setup in kde can no longer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X crash: multiple keyboard layouts on FC5 - SOLVED

2006-08-31 Thread John McMonagle
Works for me after I renamed the xkb directory and copied in the files from my debian sarge install. Have no clue how one one would change ltsp to fix this :-( In the simple case that ltsp is on the application server suppose one could copy the application servers xkb files. In my larger

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-07-23 Thread John McMonagle
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[Ltsp-discuss] Adding acpid to ltsp?

2006-07-21 Thread John McMonagle
Are there plans to add acpid to ltsp? On most new workstations the power switch does not actually cut the power. Some have bios settings that will do instant power off, but most require holding the power button for about 4 seconds. acpid will shut down if you press the power switch on a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] t5525 won't boot: dhcpcd failed!

2006-07-21 Thread John McMonagle
Have some t5125 terminals. They acted as you describe with ltsp 4.1 using the 2.6 kernel. Worked OK with the ltsp 4.1 2.4 kernel. Tried a a few different 2.6 kernel cds via usb and they failed also. Did not try a newer cd. Most important of all works fine with ltsp 4.2 :-) John Leonid

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding acpid to ltsp?

2006-07-21 Thread John McMonagle
At this stage, every workstation will boot a ACPI-capable kernel image, and whenever you push its poweroff button, it will cleanly shutdown. It will be very fast, as its filesystem is in RAM. Jim McQuillan wrote: On Fri, July 21, 2006 4:17 pm, John McMonagle wrote: Are there plans to add

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fix for 2nd-user local dev problem

2006-06-22 Thread John McMonagle
the updated lbuscd and report your findings back to us. Thank you, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John McMonagle IT Manager Advocap Inc. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second Log in problem

2006-06-14 Thread John McMonagle
Jim While I'm really suspicious of lbuscd it is really strange that you can not reproduce the problem. I'm running debian sarge with a few things from backports and having problems. Feel silly asking this but are you testing from a fresh install of ltsp on your server? I rather doubt if

[Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev for camera media.

2006-06-09 Thread John McMonagle
Not really sure if I should list this as bug or feature request. My primary need for Local Dev support is for camera media. I was thinking of getting adapters for camera media that fit in a drive bay. Problem is the only way I can get it to work is to plug in the media in before plugging in to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev does not work on second login.

2006-06-02 Thread John McMonagle
for now. Anyhow it works better than 4.1 and is much more user friendly. John John McMonagle wrote: udev messages always work. Just to to test added full rw permission to /dev/fuse. Seems to increase the odds of it working but if I keep logging in and out it enough times it will fail. Also

[Ltsp-discuss] nas sound problem

2006-06-02 Thread John McMonagle
? John -- John McMonagle IT Manager Advocap Inc. _ 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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 fuse and ldap

2006-05-31 Thread John McMonagle
Other than running Debian sarge have the same situation. I do not want fuse access for default so didn't even try that. First off you can add the ldap account users to the /etc/group file. I tried it initially for testing and it worked. What I did is created a localdev group in ldap then

[Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev does not work on second login.

2006-05-31 Thread John McMonagle
Having problem with local device support with ltsp 4.2. Like some other people it works properly on the first log in after booting the terminal. Usually will not work after that. Did not see any solution do far. Have 2 systems set up with ltsp 4.2 one is one is a production server in one of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev does not work on second login.

2006-05-31 Thread John McMonagle
' problem, but I am not sure if it was lbussd that caused it. Z. = John McMonagle wrote: Having problem with local device support with ltsp 4.2. Like some other people it works properly on the first log in after booting the terminal. Usually will not work after that. Did not see any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev does not work on second login.

2006-05-31 Thread John McMonagle
, and app. 4 seconds later it should report the device being mounted. Does this still work, even when your 2nd user's USB-device is not functioning? John McMonagle wrote: Zoilo lbussd is stopping after I log out and starting when I log in. Also see a connection to the terminal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP Compaq Thin Client t5125

2006-05-16 Thread John McMonagle
Just tried HP t5125 on ltsp 4.2 Works now with no fuss. No settings required. John John McMonagle wrote: I bought a HP t5125 to test it out. The good: Under $200. Small No fan. Can be set to boot via PXE. Problems: It will not boot a 2.6 kernel. A real annoyance as I'm using 2.6 as default

[Ltsp-discuss] Local device compatability between ltsp 4.1 amd 4.2

2006-05-13 Thread John McMonagle
Managed to get local device support working on a test system with ltsp 4.2. Now it's time to try it for real. Like to test to make sure I have everything working properly without interfering with the old local device support. My main concern is to run both methods at once will need to have both

[Ltsp-discuss] HP Compaq Thin Client t5125

2006-01-17 Thread John McMonagle
I bought a HP t5125 to test it out. The good: Under $200. Small No fan. Can be set to boot via PXE. Problems: It will not boot a 2.6 kernel. A real annoyance as I'm using 2.6 as default. Tried various 2.6 based boot CDs and it's the same. In order to get X up in a usable state needs custom

[Ltsp-discuss] Setting dpi

2006-01-17 Thread John McMonagle
X does a great job figuring out the proper dpi from the resolution and monitor dimensions. Problem is many users need larger text. Do not see a way to set this in lts.conf. I know of 2 ways to do it. Add DisplaySize to the Monitor section with width and hight in mm. Just set smaller size

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble with localdrives

2005-08-04 Thread John McMonagle
/null 21 ; sleep 10; done ^^^ Note the diffs. See if that helps. On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:14 -0500, John McMonagle wrote: Gideon Much better. now: #!/bin/bash trap '' 1 trap '' 9 while true ; do ls /tmp/drives/* /dev/null ; sleep 10; done

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble with localdrives

2005-08-01 Thread John McMonagle
Working on remote disk access. Looking for some sort of workaround until the real cause is fixes. Find if I run this on the terminal: #!/bin/bash bash -c while true ; do ls /tmp/drives/* /dev/null ; sleep 10; done It behaves reasonably well. Couple problems. Only way I can get to run at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] FAMD-too many open files

2005-08-01 Thread John McMonagle
I dug in a bit more. It's been a while so forget some of the details. if I put some thing like ulimit -n 8196 in the startup script it last a little longer. Probably gets another 100 files monitored before failing Sent bug report to debian and to fam list. No response :( Pretty sure the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble with localdrives

2005-08-01 Thread John McMonagle
true ; do ls /tmp/drives/* /dev/null 21 ; sleep 10; done On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:16 -0500, John McMonagle wrote: Working on remote disk access. Looking for some sort of workaround until the real cause is fixes. Find if I run this on the terminal: #!/bin/bash bash -c while true ; do ls /tmp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with famd

2005-07-10 Thread John McMonagle
No luck so far :( I would really appreciate to know if anyone using kde with fam with more than 10 users?? Next thing to try is rebuild fam without dnotify support. John John McMonagle wrote: I do not think that is my problem. I checked it when I saw the file errors and file-max was 204067

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with famd

2005-06-30 Thread John McMonagle
wasn't working right after that. John McMonagle wrote: Am upgrading to ltsp 4.11 and debian sarge with kde. Working though the small offices first and had no problems. Now having a problem when about 10 people are logged in. What happens is logins stall and new programs stall. Was getting

[Ltsp-discuss] Problem with famd

2005-06-28 Thread John McMonagle
Am upgrading to ltsp 4.11 and debian sarge with kde. Working though the small offices first and had no problems. Now having a problem when about 10 people are logged in. What happens is logins stall and new programs stall. Was getting errors in syslog from famd saying it is out of file handles.

[Ltsp-discuss] dpms and dpi settings?

2003-04-01 Thread John McMonagle
I'm slowly concerting over from xtermkit. One problem I'm having is on some terminasls with 15 inch monitors reporting monitor 19 inch monitor. This ends up as 60 dpi. This makes the text very small. There is a possible DisplaySize parameter but I see no way to put it in lts.conf? Is the size