Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP Neoware

2010-06-22 Thread Phil Davey
On 21/06/2010 19:24, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Phil Davey skrev: >> On 21/06/2010 12:14, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: >>> we've got a pile of HP neoware CA5's. >>> - Anyone with any experiences with such TC's? >>> - Can they be made to PXE boot? &g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP Neoware

2010-06-21 Thread Phil Davey
ren't the fastest boxes in the world. Screen refreshes are a tad slow. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email phil.da...@hughes.cam.ac.uk -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team u

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop and usbmount

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Davey
am in the process of testing LTSP 5 and I'm not totally sure it works with that yet. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email phil.da...@hughes.cam.ac.uk -- Let Crystal Reports ha

[Ltsp-discuss] Reducing boot time

2009-07-21 Thread Phil Davey
those in the config? Hopefully with the intention that booting will be much quicker as a result. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email phil.da...@hughes.cam.ac.uk -- Enter the BlackBerry

[Ltsp-discuss] Error on PXE Boot with (working) LTSP-Server on older ThinClient Scovery XS

2009-01-29 Thread phil petkan
y suited for our situation. Best regards and thanks for your help. - Phil -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Support

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Davey
p/Clients -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] choosing screen_01 as default desktop

2007-02-27 Thread Phil Davey
isplayed on the >> terminal. When I boot the terminal, I have to switch to screen_01 to >> see my linux desktop. I *think* they appear in the order the scripts finish. Try putting some pauses in one of the screen scripts and see what happens. -- Phil Davey Computer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sda: unknown partition table

2007-01-23 Thread Phil Davey
* the ltsp update added support for the second mount type. I could, of course, be completely wrong -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] W2003 Rdesktop as SCREEN_01, first default choice...

2006-11-15 Thread Phil Davey
_03    =  shell I *think* the screens are displayed in the order they finish, rather than the order in the lts.conf file. I'd guess the shell or startx screens finish first, so they are the ones you see. I could well be wrong though -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, Universit

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFS opts

2006-08-15 Thread Phil Davey
as to which speed and duplex they are running at. >option option-129 "MOPTS=nolock,ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192"; In my case I'm using: option option-129 "MOPTS=nolock,ro,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,proto=tcp"; -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-05 Thread Phil Davey
test if anything broke *this iteration*. (with the app, not the OS) Jablicator may help with that, if you haven't tried it already. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-31 Thread Phil Davey
. ;) Then you can search the mailing list archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&r=1&w=2 and/or look at the ltsp wiki: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WebHome That should cover pretty much everything. :) -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of C

Re: PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-30 Thread Phil Davey
external resources what the actual modelines should be. These lines in lts.conf, with suitable numbers for your monitor, should fix it. X_HORZSYNC = "24-80" X_VERTREFRESH = "55-75" -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Em

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 doesn't want to boot

2006-05-30 Thread Phil Davey
all, of my EPIA based clients. Seems to be something to do with the combination of etherboot version, 4.2 kernel (and the last 4.1 kernel I think) and possibly ACPI settings too. When I get time I'll try all the variations I can think of to narrow it down a bit more. -- Phil Davey Com

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop and startx

2006-05-26 Thread Phil Davey
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Joey S. Eisma wrote: [ws001] X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = "PS/2" X_MOUSE_DEVICE= "dev/psaux" I'd say the line above should be "/dev/psaux", ie with a / before dev. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Why no open-source TS server for Windows?

2006-05-24 Thread Phil Davey
. So, whether you use MS terminal server, rdesktop or anything else, you still pay the cash. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local devices 4.2: allways have to execute lbus-start.sh manually

2006-05-05 Thread Phil Davey
local devices on the clients. Another thing to check is to make sure the lbus-start script is run as the user, not root. It will run as root, but not work. I've spent ages on this and finally figured it out today, thanks to jammcq on irc. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, U

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Module agpgart.o not found

2006-04-25 Thread Phil Davey
refused to start saying there were no drivers. Turns out I had no XSERVER entry at all. Added it in set to auto and it's fine now. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomca

[Ltsp-discuss] 4.2 + rdesktop + local drives

2006-04-07 Thread Phil Davey
n the window manager? or even SCREEN_01 = shell for that matter. I still can't get over how fast the clients boot now. :) Thanks very much for any help. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL

[Ltsp-discuss] build_x4_cfg partially broken in 4.2

2006-04-06 Thread Phil Davey
Driver "sis" I'm fairly sure it's something in the Setup Devices section of build_x4_cfg, but I don't understand how that code works. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HowTo: X blank screens switched off?

2006-03-21 Thread Phil Davey
screensaver of some kind instead, I'd guess you want X_DPMS = N and then set up a screensaver either on the server on as a local app on the clients. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sis7019 sound card

2006-03-07 Thread Phil Davey
g those on the LTSP wiki) refuse to load, saying that they were compiled with gcc v2 rather than v3 which the kernel was compiled with. For me it's not critical, but it would be nice to have that working. I'm quite willing to test any possible solutions. -- Phil Davey Computer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help with suse 10 and ltsp

2006-01-02 Thread Phil Driscoll
age: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/DHCP I can confirm that the fix works on SuSE 10.0. -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP don't start on 172.16.XX.YY network

2005-12-10 Thread Phil Davey
ooks wrong to me. The host part should be inside the subnet brackets { } Remove the { above the word host and put it at the bottom. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] JackPC thin Clients

2005-11-04 Thread Phil Davey
urers who said that it won't work with anything else and does not have PXE. I then removed the flash disk, switched it on and up popped a boot menu including a PXE option. :) No guarantee this one will be the same, but it's worth a closer look. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes H

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] kdm has slowed down

2005-09-15 Thread Phil Davey
to 5 seconds to get the login screen after having logged out too. During the dist-upgrade XFree was replaced by Xorg. Perhaps this has something to do with it? -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dhcp problems.

2005-09-05 Thread Phil Davey
and all's fine. I got stuck with that one. Turns out that 3.0.3 was changed and now requires a 'next-server' entry, even if the TFTP server is the same as the DHCP server (which it quite commonly is). Previously, if next-server was missing, it defaulted to the same server. It doe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP takes 'Best of Show' award at Linux World

2005-08-10 Thread Phil Driscoll
Well deserved. Congratulations to Jim and the team. -- Phil Driscoll --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Pla

[Ltsp-discuss] 3D acceleration on i810

2005-07-13 Thread Phil Driscoll
uot;glx" Load "dri" ... EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "My Video Card" Driver "i810" EndSection Does anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong? -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom PCIe Cards

2005-06-23 Thread Phil Driscoll
e pci id of the NIC (14e4:1677). I did this test prior to the release of LTSP 4.1.1 so things may now have changed. -- Phil Driscoll --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to fol

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom PCIe Cards

2005-06-22 Thread Phil Driscoll
r a newer tg3 driver which knew about the NIC in the GC280 - but although I eventually got it to build, it still wouldn't work - I guess due to issues with trying to get a 2.6 driver to work with a 2.4 kernel. In the end I gave up! -- Phil Driscoll --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin client

2005-06-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
a really thin client which only knows how to do a pxe or etherboot. -- Phil Driscoll --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Updating Terminalserver from SuSE 9.1 to 9.3

2005-06-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
ems (not using Symbiont though). -- Phil Driscoll --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client hardware- my experience

2005-06-02 Thread Phil Davey
h their tech support says it's not possible, if you take out their compact flash card (which contains all their software gubbins) it just boots via PXE. :) I'm looking at getting the compact flash usable as a local drive - probably as local swap space. -- Phil Davey Computer Offi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] REQUEST TO LTSP.ORG / DEVELOPER

2005-04-13 Thread Phil Davey
on to use LTSP in the first place. The alternative is to run some kind of proxy/firewall that is based on the username rather than the mac address. I've not tried this myself, but I've seen it mentioned several times on this list. Try searching the archives for 'squid'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LBE Problems on SuSE 9.2

2005-03-28 Thread Phil Driscoll
ernel? If not, has anyone got any suggestions which might get me up and running with the Dell Optiplex GX280? Thanks. -- Phil Driscoll --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Produ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LBE Problems on SuSE 9.2

2005-03-23 Thread Phil Driscoll
cross compiler tools built on RH9 for those of us who don't have red hat, and don't have the opportunity to install it anywhere? Thanks. -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows Mobile Application Co

[Ltsp-discuss] LBE Problems on SuSE 9.2

2005-03-21 Thread Phil Driscoll
-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...] Unable to configure binutils: No such file or directory Unable to build crosscomp-src: I get the same error if I checkout the head version from CVS. Does anyone know how I can proceed? Thanks in advance. -- Phil Driscoll

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 driver problem

2005-03-21 Thread Phil Driscoll
) but sadly this doesn't work as the tg3.o driver code contains various fixups for hardware bugs in the different versions of the controller and doesn't know what to do with this one. Drat! -- Phil Driscoll --- SF email is sponsore

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 driver problem

2005-03-18 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Friday 18 March 2005 15:13, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Phil, > > Are you using Etherboot ? PXE > If you are using PXE, then you need to specify NIC=tg3 in the pxe config > file. > > Assuming you are using the standard 2.4.26-ltsp-2 kernel, the > file is: > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 driver problem

2005-03-18 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Friday 18 March 2005 13:23, Phil Driscoll wrote: > Einar - did you ever solve this problem? I also have some Dell Optiplex > GX280s on which I can get as far as: > > ERROR! Could not automatically detect the network card. I can confirm that the following addition to dhcpd.conf d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tg3 driver problem

2005-03-18 Thread Phil Driscoll
NIC. The tg3 driver included in > initrd-2.4.26-ltsp-2.gz doesn't recognize this NIC. Einar - did you ever solve this problem? I also have some Dell Optiplex GX280s on which I can get as far as: ERROR! Could not automatically detect the netw

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Optoma ST325

2005-03-04 Thread Phil Davey
ading the standard LTSP kernel. Nifty little boxes and not bad for 200 quid to your door. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest &

[Ltsp-discuss] HP t5515 thin client - Kernel Loading crashes client

2004-11-05 Thread Phil Lewis
suggestions welcome. Regards Phil Lewis Unix Systems Administrator t +44 (0) 208 636 9340

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: HP t5515 thin client - Kernel Loading crashes client

2004-11-05 Thread Phil Lewis
's shipped just last week. Yes - you need windows to unzip the file, then you need to copy a few files to the supplied linux flash image and reflash the thin client's BIOS. After that it works a dream! Regards Phil On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:06, Phil Lewis wrote: Hi,

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: HP t5515 thin client - Kernel Loading crashes client

2004-11-04 Thread Phil Lewis
x27;s shipped just last week. Yes - you need windows to unzip the file, then you need to copy a few files to the supplied linux flash image and reflash the thin client's BIOS. After that it works a dream! Regards Phil On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:06, Phil Lewis wrote: > Hi, > >

[Ltsp-discuss] HP t5515 thin client - Kernel Loading crashes client

2004-11-04 Thread Phil Lewis
ns welcome. Regards Phil Lewis Unix Systems Administrator t +44 (0) 208 636 9340 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on L

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Win2K DHCP server

2004-08-19 Thread Phil Driscoll
connected to the rest (the Windows part) of the network. In this way you can setup a dedicated DHCP server (configured only to handle requests on, say, eth0) for LTSP on your big Linux machine. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- SF.Net email is sponso

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on suse 9.1

2004-08-12 Thread Phil Driscoll
128 set to a specific value. The value is a # special Etherboot signature of 'e4:45:74:68:00:00'. # # Add these two lines to the host entry that needs kernel parameters # #option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; # NOT

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] twice linuxrc

2004-07-08 Thread Phil Davey
en on some workstations. I've noticed most/all of my client boxes do that. I can't remember the details, but something around there fails (pivotroot?), it tries again and then works fine. As they end up working, I haven't really looked at it much. New kernel sounds interesting! --

[Ltsp-discuss] Booting from hard disk on laptop with pcmcia network card

2004-06-22 Thread Phil Driscoll
ect that I may have the fastest laptop in the world :) Thanks are due as ever to Jim, and to everyone else who has contributed to making LTSP such a fantastic system. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple logins on same username

2004-04-14 Thread Phil Davey
ke a picture, can still access those files on terminal 4 > given the limitation/situation above. This is only possible using per person accounts. You need to solve your administrative problem. ;) -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, Univers

[Ltsp-discuss] Boot from hard disk - pcmcia issue

2004-03-26 Thread Phil Driscoll
, they fail to load, and again the laptop dies with a no root panic. Is there something silly I'm doing here, or a simple step I can take to get the network card fired up. If successful, this is a great way of breathing new life into tired old laptops!

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding user accounts in batch

2004-03-23 Thread Phil Jones
passgen' script is GPL. Would it be useful? The download can be found at http://www.lfsp.org/. Phil --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of Ge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding user accounts in batch

2004-03-23 Thread Phil Jones
passgen' script is GPL. Would it be useful? The download can be found at http://www.lfsp.org/. Phil --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of Ge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding user accounts in batch

2004-03-14 Thread Phil Jones
passgen' script is GPL. Would it be useful? The download can be found at http://www.lfsp.org/. Phil --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologi

[Ltsp-discuss] Adding user accounts in batch

2004-03-12 Thread Phil Jones
y page also offers a (much slower) tool for removing the accounts again. Would this be a useful addition to LTSP? The URL is: http://www.lfsp.org/ Phil --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial present

[Ltsp-discuss] modprobe problem

2004-02-01 Thread phil
ideas? Regards Phil -- Phil Foxton +44 7966 336218 --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.ecli

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] booting with a different init runlevel

2004-01-08 Thread Phil Davey
I think!) and I've tried to explain how I did it here: http://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/~pd213/ltsp-instructions.html It works really well for me. The users get a menu of boot options to choose from and all I need to do to change it is update dhcpd.conf. I've got it working using dhcp v3 now as w

[Ltsp-discuss] XFree86 4.3 on LTSP 4

2003-12-11 Thread phil
I see that Xfree 4.3 is available as a tarball from the LTSP site, is installing it a case of d/l that, altering the package.def then re-running build_all in the lbe directory? Or am I missing something fundamental here? Regards Phil -- Phil Foxton +44 7966 336218

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on geode

2003-11-18 Thread phil
created XFConfig file in /tmp on the local machine (it gives an error of trying to find XF86Config.1 which is obviously not there!) Any ideas? Phil -- Phil Foxton +44 7966 336218 --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Case Insensitive Passwords

2003-10-10 Thread Phil Davey
How about taking the capslock key off the keyboards? > You'd think that after the first three dozen times you walk over and > say "Well, your caps lock is on" they'd get a clue but they don't. :-( That'd be far to easy. ;) -- Phil Davey Comput

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Microsoft license question on LTSP!

2003-08-04 Thread Phil Davey
27;t have any choice. ;) It depends who's in charge, you or the users. As suggested before, a change from the current MS office to openoffice isn't much different from a change from current MS office to new MS office. -- Phil Davey Computer Office

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Running Citrix ICA over LTSP -- help please

2003-06-25 Thread Phil Davey
e Citrix server from > within LTSP... wooo wooo! Let me know what you think. I've added the ICA client as a program on the ltsp (icewm) start menu, so you can still connect to a windows terminal server, even when you choose to boot to a linux session. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes H

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Running Citrix ICA over LTSP -- help please

2003-06-25 Thread Phil Davey
un a seamless client to attach to a MS terminal server. I've done exactly that (and a bit more besides). While not a general how-to, it does describe what I've done and should be a reasonable start to getting it working elsewhere. http://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/~pd213/ltsp-instructions

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XF86Config file example request.

2003-06-24 Thread Phil R Lawrence
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:34:53 -0600 "Archdeacon Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would someone out there ***PLEASE*** post an example > > XF86Config file, and if possible, for the S3 driver? > > I would greatly appreciate it. > > Never mind. I got it working. Thank you anyway. Perhaps you c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setting Default Proxy Server for Galion

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Driscoll
- it at least makes sure they have the correct settings when they run Galeon, although it doesn't stop them changing settings, although by configuring your network appropriately, you can make it so your proxy is the only working route for web access. Cheers

[Ltsp-discuss] SSH instead of nfs

2003-02-14 Thread Phil Driscoll
lufs http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/ which allows (amongst other things) remote filesystems to be mounted via ssh. My first impressions are that it is very good, and perhaps it might have a part to play in providing an alternative to NFS in LTSP. Cheers -- Phi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Please Recommend an Eden Board

2003-01-24 Thread Phil Davey
it boots fine (in my case, PXE loads etherboot loads ltsp kernel). Great little piece of kit. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enter

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] over my dead body... [slightly OT]

2003-01-23 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Thursday 23 January 2003 5:36 pm, Joseph wrote: > Do you use Galeon with icewm? We do - versions straight off the SuSE 8.1 distro. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition +

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] over my dead body... [slightly OT]

2003-01-23 Thread Phil Driscoll
f resources that moving from Mozilla to Galeon gave us. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://ww

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using ltp as Citrix Client

2003-01-22 Thread Phil Davey
es.cam.ac.uk/~pd213/ltsp-instructions.html It's not meant as a step by step guide. More, I did this and it kind of works. :-) -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SPEED

2002-12-18 Thread Phil Driscoll
tually instantaneusly, whereas the boot code on a floppy takes a finite amount of time to read in - seek time plus data transfer time. I don't use boot floppies, but I suspect this part of the process might take a couploe of seconds. Fron there on in, the speed is the same.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: IceWM (Phil Driscoll)

2002-12-17 Thread Phil Driscoll
s falls into the new or the old camp, but it seems fast to me, and with the downloadable XP theme, is ideal where you have users who have to move between Windows and LTSP boxes. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Wi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] IceWM

2002-12-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Monday 16 December 2002 3:32 pm, Joseph wrote: > Has anyone got the IceWM to work well with RH8 and ltsp? > It works for me but starts up very slow. I'm using it with SuSE 8.1 and it's very fast to startup - hardly any gap between logging in and the desktop appearing. Cheers -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on SuSE 8.1?

2002-12-08 Thread Phil Driscoll
; Thanks for your help! On your SuSE 8.1 box change the version number in /etc/SuSE-release temporarily to 8.0 then all will work fine. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heave

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help.. Monitor goes blank during bootup

2002-11-29 Thread Phil Driscoll
t everything is working perfectly except that the video output is too high a frequency for the monitor to latch onto and you need to change the modeline you are using? -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Large-scale school LTSP project

2002-11-29 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Friday 29 November 2002 12:40 pm, Adrian Snyman wrote: > Okay .. the closest i have seen to an "XP"'sh kind of look is with KDE > 3.0.4 + XP Theme .. > How are you doing it ?? http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/xp__/?topic_id=925%2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Large-scale school LTSP project

2002-11-29 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Friday 29 November 2002 10:41 am, Chris Puttick wrote: > KDE is being used (sorry > Phil!) as the school likes the look of it, although we will be turning off > all the extras to improve performance (latest versions of KDE seem faster > anyway). > When you say the school likes

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suse linux 8.1 pro install prob

2002-11-12 Thread Phil Driscoll
the version number inside some file in /etc (probably /etc/.SuSE-release looking at my /etc now) containing the SuSE version number. I just had to set this back temporarily to 7.3 and the installation went ok. Same might be true if you set yours back to 8.0. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mozilla running on the thin client?

2002-11-10 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Sunday 10 November 2002 6:47 am, Ian T (C++ Developer) wrote: > Hi Phil, > Thanks for your reply. A couple of questions, if you don't mind :) > Do you have Galeon running on the thin client or on the server? On the server - our clients are too thin. > Does Galeon have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Display Manager and Login Faces

2002-11-09 Thread Phil Driscoll
the most lightweight one. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mozilla running on the thin client?

2002-11-09 Thread Phil Driscoll
endering engine, but the user interface is written in real code so it's faster and its memory is shared. This gave us a big performance boost over Mozilla and lost us nothing in browsing capablility. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.n

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarOffice, gdm, NT problem?

2002-11-02 Thread Phil Driscoll
&forum_id=2544 Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?pa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTS on IBM RS/6000

2002-10-26 Thread Phil Driscoll
the value of DISPLAYMANAGER from kdm to xdm. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X Refresh Rate

2002-10-15 Thread Phil Davey
umbers to something which won't blow up your screen. :-) [machine_name] X_MODE_0= 800x600 X_HORZSYNC = "31-48" X_VERTREFRESH = "50-90" -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Ha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PCCHIPS 810

2002-10-14 Thread Phil Davey
e seen boards that change between the novell boot thingy and PXE with each bios version. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Initial tempory password

2002-10-10 Thread Phil Davey
Debian man page, is slightly more helpful (and very easy to miss - took me three reads to find it!). Account maintenance If you wish to immediately expire an accounts password, you can use the -e option. This in affect can force a user to change their password at their next login. Haven't actu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Installing Staroffice questions.

2002-10-08 Thread Phil Driscoll
ce/org/openoffice/Setup.xml" ReplaceAndChown ".OpenOffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xml" ReplaceAndChown ".OpenOffice/user/basic/dialog.xlc" ReplaceAndChown ".OpenOffice/user/basic/script.xlc" ReplaceAndChown ".OpenOffice

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to mount NT share & maintain NT sharepermission via SMB for LTSP user??

2002-10-03 Thread Phil Davey
ot; else echo "Mount failed, rerun the script." smbumount $unixmnt fi fi # end of mount-home /usr/local/bin/unmount-home #!/bin/sh # # Unmount NT home directory # # CURR_USER=`whoami` umask 077 unixmnt="/home/${CURR_US

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd-conf

2002-10-02 Thread Phil Davey
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Samuel Mukoti wrote: > Anyone know any gui tools that configure /etc/dhcpd.conf? I believe webmin includes a module to do this. I haven't tried it myself, but it's on the (long!) list of things to do. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Ca

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Bandwith Measurement

2002-10-02 Thread Phil Davey
l applications will presumably make some kind of difference. It'd be very interested in any comparisons, whatever the applications used are. I'll also see if I can come up with some numbers on machines here. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cam

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] window managers

2002-09-26 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:34 am, Maximo Ramos wrote: > www.qvwm.org We did evaluate this at some length - and I've forgotten now why we went for IceWM instead - but there was a good reason :) -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] window managers

2002-09-25 Thread Phil Driscoll
the users can't mess around with it, and presents a minimum of issues for users migrating between it an windows boxes. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. ht

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] window managers

2002-09-25 Thread Phil Davey
one yet. What is it like? -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Looking for a way to add "Search" capability to LTSP website

2002-09-06 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Friday 06 September 2002 7:45 pm, Randall Craig wrote: > htdig I think would work well. ...as would mnogo http://www.mnogosearch.org/ -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Ge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Suggestions taken -- A success

2002-07-29 Thread Phil Driscoll
ption of Opera, which I have not tried) all the browsers in the above list fail to work with flash, except on the server - at least on both my setups :) Cheers -- Phil Driscoll --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No Sound; Help!

2002-07-19 Thread Phil Davey
I'm not sure if this will help, but realplayer 8 which I'm using has options in it's preferences to determine which sound drivers it uses. Maybe try changing these? -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access to serve paths...

2002-07-11 Thread Phil Davey
/opt/ltsp/i386/ are used to boot and run the terminal itself (usually to start X Windows). When you log in, you are actually logging into the server, not the terminal itself, and would therefore see all the servers directories. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email [E

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] kernel for i815: Help wanted!

2002-07-01 Thread Phil Davey
em at all. All I need is a line in lts.conf like: MODULE_02 = agpgart Much like the example included in the default lts.conf file. Although it says i810, it works fine with i815 too. -- Phil Davey Computer Officer Hughes Hall College, Cambridge Email [E

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