Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Jammin 125 and LTSP 5

2008-06-04 Thread Nathan Sweet
in the client section of the LTSP wiki. http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Clients#Jammin_125 I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Jason Nathan Sweet wrote: Jason, I just saw your message on the email list and I was wondering if you've had any luck getting this issue sorted out

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Jammin 125 and LTSP 5

2008-06-03 Thread Nathan Sweet
Jason, I just saw your message on the email list and I was wondering if you've had any luck getting this issue sorted out. We're trying to do the same thing (12 Jammin 125s on Edubuntu 8.04) and I came up with the same problem you did. If you have any tips or pointers, they'd be much

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with screensavers and screen blanking

2007-08-10 Thread Nathan Sweet
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:53:26 -0600, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:01:39 -0600 Nathan Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone run into this or does anyone know of a way to fix this? Depending on exactly what is turning your screen off, xset s off may

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with screensavers and screen blanking

2007-08-10 Thread Nathan Sweet
Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:26:00 -0600 Nathan Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does that mean the fix is to switch it over to xscreensaver? I use xscreensaver on my ltsp setups and it works fine. I never saw the point in gnome-screensaver, frankly, even though I run

[Ltsp-discuss] Help with screensavers and screen blanking

2007-08-08 Thread Nathan Sweet
Hello, I'm running a 12 seat lab using Edubuntu 7.04/LTSP 5 and I would like the screensavers to run without any screen blanking. I've tried setting the options on the client via the standard Gnome settings dialog, but this does not disable screen blanking. I've also tried using a custom

[Ltsp-discuss] Video drivers on Jammin125 still crashing...

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Sweet
to be a safe driver to use, but not in this case. I suspect that the problem might not necessarily be with the driver itself, but perhaps with Xorg. Any thoughts? -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video drivers on Jammin125 still crashing...

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Sweet
originally, it happens for both the nsc and vesa drivers, so I don't think it's the driver, per se, but Xorg itself. Oh, if it's pertinent, I'm running the latest LTSP 2.4 kernel. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video drivers on Jammin125 still crashing...

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Sweet
. This is with a fresh installation of 4.1.1. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax: 505-277-9285 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video drivers on Jammin125 still crashing...

2005-07-20 Thread Nathan Sweet
Nathan Sweet wrote: Jim McQuillan wrote: Nathan, do you have another J-125 to test with? That would possibly rule out a real hardware problem. And, i'm assuming that you are using the latest LTSP, v4.1.1, is that correct? Jim, I've already tested with another J-125 and they all do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound

2004-11-22 Thread Nathan Sweet
, it is possible to just use the Sound System configuration module in KDE to select NAS or ESD. And I would actually recommend using ESD over NAS, as I've seen better performance from ESD. Where NAS has about a 2 second delay between server and client, ESD has about a half a second. -- Nathan Sweet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] MS Office 97

2004-10-04 Thread Nathan Sweet
no need for Excel. If you're truly stuck with Excel 97, then I would recommend Crossover. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax: 505-277-9285 --- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Jammin problems related to NIC?

2004-08-26 Thread Nathan Sweet
freezing right before it switches to runlevel 5). Paul, what would be the correct way to capture and analyze the network traffic to determine the amount of IP fragmentation? Just run ethereal and caputre all IP traffic? For what would I be looking? Thanks in advance... -- Nathan Sweet University

[Ltsp-discuss] Kernel boot parameters?

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Sweet
After looking through the docs, I don't think this is likely, but I'll ask anyway... Is it possible to specify boot parameters for ther LTSP kernel? Thanks... -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax: 505-277-9285

[Ltsp-discuss] Local devices and USB

2004-08-12 Thread Nathan Sweet
accesses to not work. This may be an issue with supermount, as I can mount/unmount the device (with supermount unloaded) with no problems. With all that said, does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this? -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.1 and Jammin-125 video driver

2004-08-12 Thread Nathan Sweet
the NoAccel option, but that only seemed to make it worse. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax: 505-277-9285 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank

[Ltsp-discuss] Local floppy drives (Is the horse dead yet?)

2004-08-11 Thread Nathan Sweet
to override the permissions set by the samba server (when using fmask=666 and dmask=777 as options)? I would guess not, so this would tell me that there may be an issue with smb.conf. But, I don't see why this would change from one day to the next. Anyone have any ideas? -- Nathan Sweet University

[Ltsp-discuss] Problem with local devices...

2004-08-09 Thread Nathan Sweet
in Crossover, so that files can be accessed from Microsoft applications. The only 'problem' is some long delays, but it's mostly tolerable. Thanks for all your hard work and I hope the above notes help to improve LTSP. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] workstation crash

2004-07-20 Thread Nathan Sweet
Hi Jim, I know this email was directed to Jeff, but perhaps my data can also help, since I'm experiencing similar problems. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually, when faced with a problem like this, I like to collect data. 99% of the time, if you collect enough data, the patterns will emerge, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] workstation crash

2004-07-14 Thread Nathan Sweet
I upgraded to the latest x_core (I think that one used xfree86 4.2), the lock-up problems went away. Now with LTSP 4, I'm back to square one and if LTSP 4.1 doesn't fix it, I may roll back to LTSP 3, which I really don't want to do. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-4.1 Beta 1 now available

2004-07-13 Thread Nathan Sweet
, Are there instructions for setting up a parallel LTSP system on the same server to easily test the beta? I thought I saw a question like this answered on this list a while back, but I have been unable to find it. -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator

[Ltsp-discuss] MuNAS?

2004-06-23 Thread Nathan Sweet
So, has anyone heard of MuNAS? See: http://advancedthintech.com/ Has anyone used it? -- Nathan Sweet University of New Mexico Department of Career Services System Administrator Phn: 505-277-2599 Fax: 505-277-9285 --- This SF.Net email sponsored

[Ltsp-discuss] More problems with Jammin-125 (Freezing)

2004-06-16 Thread Nathan Sweet
Hello everyone, I'm somewhat curious if anyone has had problems with the Jammin-125 freezing or locking up. When these units first came out, I had (what appears to be) the same problem. I fixed the problem by ugrading the X driver (this was about a year ago). Now, with a fresh LTSP4

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound on Jammin-125 appears to be broken

2004-06-15 Thread Nathan Sweet
Peter Childs wrote: Oh to get the sound working I did end up copying some excutable over from my debain server and checking that they had the right libraries using ldd. I have these thin clients working fine using nasd the only slight problem is that some of them will freeze on average

[Ltsp-discuss] Sound on Jammin-125 appears to be broken

2004-06-14 Thread Nathan Sweet
Hello, I've been struggling to get sound working on the Jammin-125. I first tried using the ltsp_kernel-3.0.15 release, but there was no module for the cx5530 soundchip, although there was a note from Jim in the README dated 4/6/2004 that he added the cs5530 sound driver. So, I rolled back to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] locking usernames to workstations

2003-11-11 Thread Nathan Sweet
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:19, Peter Billson wrote: Jeff, It has been a long time since I used GDM for auto-login (it was just too much of a pain for my little brain to deal with! :-) so I can't help you there but auto-login would solve your problem of tying a particular user to a particular

[Ltsp-discuss] The right switch?

2003-07-19 Thread Nathan Sweet
that would allow for faster transfers? Right now, I believe the clients see a transfer rate of about 40Mb/s (I used iperf to find this). Is this what I should expect? Are there any kernel settings I could tweak to improve this? Any thoughts on this would be great. Thanks! -- Nathan Sweet University

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Issues

2002-10-26 Thread Nathan Sweet
at 1280x1024. As per the instructions, I configured it to run at an 8 bit color depth, but when I saw how crappy that looked, I commented out that line and it seems to run perfectly fine and it looks great at that resolution and its default color depth. Nathan, On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nathan Sweet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Issues

2002-10-25 Thread Nathan Sweet
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Sweet wrote: 1) Is it possible to connect USB drives (i.e., floppy and Zip)? I saw Paul Whittaker's solution for USB Zip drives, but I was wondering if there were other methods that made for a more seemless

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Issues

2002-10-25 Thread Nathan Sweet
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:55:07AM -0600, Nathan Sweet wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Sweet wrote: You've already described the cause of the problem. You should NOT log in to 2 workstations