Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-4.2 Now available

2006-04-08 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: Tom, The new local dev package is creating .desktop files in the users Desktop directory. This is the method that both Gnome and KDE have settled on, for creating icons on the desktop. I know it's a published spec, but I don't know if any other desktop environments are fol

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-4.2 Now available

2006-04-06 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: Hello all, It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the release of LTSP-4.2. This is the release with the awesome local device support, and lots of other cool new features. Take a look at http://www.ltsp.org for more details. I should assume that the notion that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] client's floppy or usb

2006-03-01 Thread Tom Allison
Umberto Nicoletti wrote: Have a look at: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalMedia or http://www.unicolet.org/linux/ltsp.html Since you are starting from scratch you could try ltspfs which is reported to work very well. Hi! I just ran into this for setting up my USB device on LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Still stuck

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Allison wrote: Peter Billson wrote: Tom, 1) It is perfectly normal for the server and clients to run different kernels. 2) It sounds like you do not have the correct Xaccess entry. Take a look at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/XDMCP-XDM and see if that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Still stuck

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Allison
Peter Billson wrote: Tom, 1) It is perfectly normal for the server and clients to run different kernels. 2) It sounds like you do not have the correct Xaccess entry. Take a look at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/XDMCP-XDM and see if that helps. 3) After XDM trys a bunch, do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Still stuck

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Allison
Peter Billson wrote: Tom, 1) It is perfectly normal for the server and clients to run different kernels. 2) It sounds like you do not have the correct Xaccess entry. Take a look at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/XDMCP-XDM and see if that helps. 3) After XDM trys a bunch, do

[Ltsp-discuss] Still stuck

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Allison
Still struggling with my xdm login problem. I noticed that there are different kernel versions posted on the screen during boot. my server runs 2.6.12 and it looks like the client runs 2.4.?? with xorg client libraries. I don't know if this changed, I think it might have. So, lacking anything

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] recently upgraded to xorg

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Last weekend I upgraded my LTSP server to XORG windows client/server. It's been running XFree86 for some years now. As near as I can tell from the syslog: Jan 18 20:51:22 localhost wdm: :12: warning: backslash and newline s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] recently upgraded to xorg

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Allison
OK, it thinks there is an XDM on this end I'm kind of scratching my head. Do I have to enable something in XDM for xdmcp connections or fix something in LTSP to get it right? Just as an update, I've fiddled with the /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config setting for DisplayManager.requestPort: tryin

[Ltsp-discuss] recently upgraded to xorg

2006-01-18 Thread Tom Allison
Last weekend I upgraded my LTSP server to XORG windows client/server. It's been running XFree86 for some years now. As near as I can tell from the syslog: Jan 18 20:51:22 localhost wdm: :12: warning: backslash and newline separa ted by space Jan

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] encryption

2005-08-28 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: Tom, Yes, we have plans for some form of encryption. I don't know yet what form that will take. I've been working with some of the X.org guys, and we've been talking about having encryption built into the Xserver, which would be cool. We've also talked about using ipsec be

[Ltsp-discuss] encryption

2005-08-28 Thread Tom Allison
Any plans on some level of ssl-tunneling for ltsp clients? I know this came up about a year ago but I haven't been much of a participant lately. The dumb thing just works se well that it's more like a light bulb than a computer system. Turn it on and LTSP is there, even when the main worksta

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP crashing ~1minute after start: Xorg.0.0.log?

2005-06-30 Thread Tom Allison
I have a "new" problem that is rather persistent. I went on a trip and came back. No one was around to fiddle with the computers so I am assuming that nothing has changed since I was last using LTSP at home. But today the xserver crashes about 1 minutes into the session. Fairly consistent.

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2005-06-17 Thread Tom Allison
I ask about this off and on, more off lately because my notebook has been rather sick. IIRC in order to use Wireless LTSP I have to do a hard disk installation of LTSP so I can add in all the necessary drivers for the Wireless NIC. Is there some docs on doing this with the current version of LTS

[Ltsp-discuss] AMD PIC

2005-01-10 Thread Tom Allison
Personal Internet Communicator Anyone looking into the LTSP-ability of this device? It looks prebaked into something Windoze-ish. I suppose if you could remove the hard drive and get PXE working you would be there, but I couldn't find that much on their website.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel 2.6 sound

2005-01-08 Thread Tom Allison
However, if you meant that ALSA would help you to set up sound with LTSP in general (as in, helping you to get the sound from the server to the thin-client) then no, it won't do that. The situation will be the same then as now. It doesn't matter what you run on the thin-client, the important thing

[Ltsp-discuss] Kernel 2.6 sound

2005-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Just trying to understand future events or architecture or something like that. When LTSP is migrated to kernel 2.6, assuming that it's going to, will it support ALSA sound as is, or am I off base on assuming that esd and ALSA are occupying the same space? I'm in no rush for any of this, with

[Ltsp-discuss] NFS

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running two notebooks as LTSP clients. They each have 512MB and 1024MB RAM respectively. Would it be "safe" to turn off the NFS? I would also ask how, but I think the answer is RTFM first... :) --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Gu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB

2004-12-05 Thread Tom Allison
John P. New wrote: Tom, Try: MODULE_01 = usb-uhci 100% thanks! --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start re

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB

2004-12-05 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: Tom, the usb-ohci module is for a particular usb chipset. You might need 'usb-uhci' instead. The real question is, what are you gonna do with it, once you get it detected? We're working on local usb device support, for things like usb memory, floppy and cdrom, but Scott's not

[Ltsp-discuss] USB

2004-12-05 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to configure a workstation to support the USB device ports. I'm not sure exactly what I would be using it for specifically, but I do have a nifly little memory stick. I was having trouble with getting the correct modules loaded. I tried: MODULE_01= usb-ohci MODULE_02

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound

2004-12-05 Thread Tom Allison
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: To install sound the open source way: - Change sound daemon on client to "nas". I was hoping to find something that would support the native ALSA in kernel 2.6. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Rea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCREEN_xx help

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The idea is most elegant, but the whole SCREEN_xx stuff seems to be very ifffy. I want to run 4 X servers on a client. SCREEN_01 = "startx" works perfectly. SCREEN_01 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :0" SCREEN_02 = "startx -ac -query 192.168.1.254 :1" works perfectly.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2.6 kernel

2004-11-28 Thread Tom Allison
Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Hello, is there some kind listadmin around who can temporarily disable this [EMAIL PROTECTED] person, since there seems to be something running amok somewhere at the sender side, with nobody home? TIA, BR, Gudmund Speaking for the accused, check the message ID. They are a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi we are skating on the edge of being too low on hard drive space. With careful management of the ltsp environment I think we could make do but there are several reasons I don't want to. 1. First, in most cases I am a believer in more is better, hardware wise. Wha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Allison
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: If I am right in my understanding of raid levels 4 - 80GB drives in such a configuration will give me 160GB of storage space, with the other 160GB of the drives being used in a mirrored capacity right? I think that's right. If you have the option money-wise and th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NIC problems

2004-11-21 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: Tom, The tg3 cards are supported by Linux, but it's possible that I didn't include the entry in the niclist file in the initrd. You can overcome this by passing 'NIC=tg3' on the kernel command line. For PXE, the kernel command line is specified in the PXE config file. You can

[Ltsp-discuss] NIC problems

2004-11-21 Thread Tom Allison
I've got PXE working on one machine. I'm trying to get another working but I keep getting kernel panics on unknown network card. Has anyone heard of a Broadcom tg3-5705M_2 device? I can find it on the rom-o-matic and so in theory could build a floppy driver. But I was hoping to get this working

[Ltsp-discuss] PXE boot failure

2004-11-21 Thread Tom Allison
I get a message that "TFTP too many packages" and then it fails. It seems that my DHCPD configuration is incorrect so I'm changing it to: filename "/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0"; Based on some googling. But this fails after retrying a series of pxelinux configuration tri

[Ltsp-discuss] wheel mouse

2004-11-20 Thread Tom Allison
I thought I would add a USB mouse to my IBM A21m notebook (LTSP client). That went great. I tried to set up my mouse wheel. That hasn't. I tried to add the XAxis_Mapping like this: [Default] SERVER = 192.168.1.10 XSERVER= auto X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = "PS

[Ltsp-discuss] using clients for backup

2004-11-20 Thread Tom Allison
I ran into a recent experience where my wife decided to delete some files she didn't think she needed I'm interested if there is some way to do the following: When someone logs in under LTSP a script is started which will execute an rsync to back up the users $HOME directory to the client ha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound

2004-11-20 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Docs say to use esound or nasd. I have alsa (kernel 2.6) Now what? Is there some esound - alsa compatiility out there that I should look into? (Debian) After some clarification I decided it would be best to just try it. I installed the .tgz file for sound and enabled sound in

[Ltsp-discuss] sound

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
Docs say to use esound or nasd. I have alsa (kernel 2.6) Now what? Is there some esound - alsa compatiility out there that I should look into? (Debian) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidime

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] My Success Story

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Well, I got the boot floppy approach to work on my notebook. BTW, Wings display manager does not support XDMCP Wings display manager does support XDMCP. But it's not typically configured for it (at least in Debian) /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config DisplayManager.requestPort: 177

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] syslogd -- SOLVED

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Tom Allison wrote: "syslogd: cannot write to remote file handle on 192.168.1.10:514" Make sure that the syslog server on 192.168.1.10 is listening for log messages. With syslogd from sysklogd package, you use the -r switch. DEBIAN /etc/init.

[Ltsp-discuss] syslogd

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
Found one error that I think is potentially a bigger problem than I originally thought it would be. "syslogd: cannot write to remote file handle on 192.168.1.10:514" I probably really want to fix this. Is this something I need to add to the /etc/hosts.allow file? -

[Ltsp-discuss] My Success Story

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
Well, I got the boot floppy approach to work on my notebook. BTW, Wings display manager does not support XDMCP Besides XDM and KDM, are there any others? XDM is a bit stark and KDM is .. I don't have any KDE on my workstation. The only realy problem I have right now is that my workstation has a

[Ltsp-discuss] DHPCD config file locations

2004-11-19 Thread Tom Allison
I found two locations for my DHCP config files. /etc/dhcpd.conf /var/ipcop/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf Which is it? I need to make some custome edits to the file and don't really know why there would be two of them laying around. --- This SF.Net email is s

[Ltsp-discuss] rom-o-matic

2004-11-17 Thread Tom Allison
Oh dear... They've added so many formats and it's been so many years since I looked at this stuff. I was planning on putting a boot disk onto the /dev/hda device of these workstations and leaving it at that. But there seems to be a lot more options now. I could just add an entry to my existin

[Ltsp-discuss] dhcp config

2004-11-17 Thread Tom Allison
my dhcpd.conf file is on another computer, so I can't use ltspadmin tools to manage it. I noticed the block: host ws001 { hardware ethernet 00:d0:59:39:a8:a1; fixed-address 192.168.1.200; filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-

[Ltsp-discuss] installation question

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I downloaded the 4.1 and decided to start plugging away for a bit. Minor bug: I do not have a key to press on the first screen shot Question: for a graphical client, what are the minimum packages: ltsp_core ltsp_x_core What about ltsp_kernel? I couldnt' find anything that says what the minimu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: And I forgot an important part: Both DHCP servers should be "not authoritative;" - well at least the LTSP one should be or you will run into trouble. I think I get it. Kind of round robin the servers. I was checking some notes on the configuration of my ipcop bo

[Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
I have run into a little problem with the DHCP configuration for IPCOP (version 3) Out of convenience and simplicity I am currently using ipcop's installation of DHCP to manage the few dynamic addresses on my network. I typically have Static IP's because the handful of computers I have on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: # Wireless configuration - I know it's possible, but I couldn't find any docs on it. This is the one that worries me the most. From what I understand, it's not going to be a standard part of the LTSP installation, but a considerable customization. Fortunately I am planning o

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
[apologies for cross-posting, but the subject is a cross-over itself] I'm trying to configure my "big" debian workstation as a LTSP server for my other computers. There is a non-debian set of deb packages for the basic LTSP stuff, but nothing for the modules necessary for Sound, Wireless. These

[Ltsp-discuss] wireless

2004-11-14 Thread Tom Allison
Is there Wireless support in 4.1? Documentation? I have a new linux network installation in my house and two weeks of vacation time to burn. I'm planning on at least one notebook + orinoco wireless card working in the first few days. But I haven't actually used LTSP since somewhere in version

[Ltsp-discuss] spamfiltering

2004-03-13 Thread Tom Allison
I'm finding a few people are sending unsubscribe emails to the list by accident. These things happen. However, someone else on the list is reporting these to razor-report as spam, which they are not. At least in the truer sense of Spam being UCE. Please keep in mind that these false reports w

[Ltsp-discuss] SuSE notes

2004-02-20 Thread Tom Allison
FYI. What we here call XDMCP, suse calls remote login. I really should keep track of the things I fiddle with. This is almost related to LTSP, but I was trying to use one box to do a remote login to another box on the same network. Now that I think about it, this might be interesting because

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] KDE

2004-02-16 Thread Tom Allison
Neil Stone wrote: Tom Allison wrote: KDE tends to get rather anal about files being locked etc..etc.. I hae found that if a spicific user is logged in to KDE that same user can't login again till they logout all other sessions (of kde) Gnome however tends not to have this issue... Don'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Workstations on SuSE9.0

2004-02-14 Thread Tom Allison
> > tftp server MUST be the same machine for PXE to work, no exceptions. > > So I use a boot floppy. > > It is *not* true that the DHCP and the tftp server must be the same. Let me > qualify that by saying at least not with dhcp-3.0pl1-26 on Red Hat 8.0. > DHCP runs on a RH 8.0 system with the fol

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] KDE

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Allison
On Friday 13 February 2004 08:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > > Just looking to confirm something that looks weird here. > > > > I logged into my server under KDE. > > When I logged in on the same username on LTSP, KDE didn't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Workstations on SuSE9.0

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Allison
On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Adrian, > > Try running tcpdump, to see if there is any tftp traffic. > > > something like this: > > tcpdump -i eth0 port 69 > > Assuming your workstations are connected via eth0 on the server. > > This should show you all the tftp

[Ltsp-discuss] KDE

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Allison
Just looking to confirm something that looks weird here. I logged into my server under KDE. When I logged in on the same username on LTSP, KDE didn't work. Also, when I first load KDE, I have difficulties with the screen refresh. There are vertical lines left over from images (splash screen, me

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X configuration & iptables

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Allison
On Thursday 12 February 2004 14:23, Brian Payst wrote: > Check your ip_conntrack table with > > cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l > > The max number of connections is set in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max > > compare those 2 numbers and see if raising it helps > I think I found the real prob

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X configuration & iptables

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Payst wrote: Check your ip_conntrack table with cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack | wc -l The max number of connections is set in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max compare those 2 numbers and see if raising it helps You can increase it by: echo "some_number" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_

[Ltsp-discuss] Sound

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Allison
I understand sound doesn't work on v4. Any information on what it is looking like? --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! ht

[Ltsp-discuss] Finally

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Allison
Well, I removed the firewall and it seems to be much better. I must say one thing... LTSP is MUCH faster then I experienced it before. Originally I was using a Pentium 200 with 64MB of RAM and a really crummy 512kb video card (Trio?). Now I'm using a Compaq Armada as my LTSP terminal. It's har

[Ltsp-discuss] X configuration & iptables

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I've decided to go RTFM on NFS and a few other goodies. I'm at the point where I'm staring at XFree86 with no window manager or login (kdm). Just a big fat X Before I start belly-aching about this, since it seems it should work, I have an observation: Feb 12 06:48:32 linux kernel: NET: 3 m

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 90 : tftp trouble

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Allison
Fathi wrote: Have to go to work to see the exact syntax of my dhcpd.conf by I remeber I am using a "next server x.y.z.t;" option to tell my ltsp clients to switch server. Original message I'm definitely getting the tftp client pointed to the wrong spot. Rather than switching

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 90 : tftp trouble

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Payst wrote: PXE boot clients need the DHCP and TFTP servers to be the same. Try running them on the same box and see what happens. You're kidding right? They have to be on the same machine? Ugh! That complicates things A LOT. I'm using the DHCP set-up from my ipcop firewall. I wasn't p

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 90 : tftp trouble

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Payst wrote: Do you have a firewall in between the LTSP clients and the server? Opening up TFTP in the firewall (or local IPTables config) doesn't seem to let PXE requests through. Opening up PXE also doesn't seem to. There's some high port requests early on that need to get through. Dro

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 90 : tftp trouble

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Payst wrote: Do you have a firewall in between the LTSP clients and the server? Opening up TFTP in the firewall (or local IPTables config) doesn't seem to let PXE requests through. Opening up PXE also doesn't seem to. There's some high port requests early on that need to get through. Dro

[Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 90 : tftp trouble

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Allison
Hello, I'm trying to get ltsp v4.0 set up on my SuSE box. I've installed tftp and not SuSE's advanced tftp package. This is a PXE boot configuration. ltsp server ip: 192.168.1.10 tftp server ip: 192.168.1.10 dhcp server ip: 192.168.1.1 DHCP configuration file entry: subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255

[Ltsp-discuss] via eden boot rom

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Allison
I found some mention of a boot ROM in the VIA eden motherboards. I would like to assume that this runs something like PXE or bootpc/ps protocols, but can't seem to find anything on the Via websites. Does anyone here know? -- Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

[Ltsp-discuss] PCMCIA

2003-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
in order to use a wired pcmcia card, should I just follow the wireless directions? Or is this handled some other way? -- One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- Robert Heinlein --- This sf.net emai

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [Fwd: RE: XSHM]

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I just got this in my mailbox. Before I kill myself, anyone know if this version of Macromedia Flash Player might actually solve their little Flash+Moz+LTSP = DEATH problem? Original Message Subject: RE: XSHM Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:25:14 -0400 From

[Ltsp-discuss] [Fwd: RE: XSHM]

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Allison
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[Ltsp-discuss] mozilla

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Allison
Has there been any movement on the mozilla+flash+ltsp=death problem? -- "Yes, and I feel bad about rendering their useless carci into dogfood..." -- Badger comics --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! Linux or F

[Ltsp-discuss] java

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Allison
I tried running one local and two ltsp clients off of a single CPU machine. It's a 600MHz Athlon with 768MB of RAM. It was OK, until my daughter pointed everyone to a website with java based games on it. It freaked. Maxed out everything and ran the load to >4. It still ran, but slowly. Af

[Ltsp-discuss] XF86Config

2002-08-22 Thread Tom Allison
I have an interestingly backwards problem here. I am trying to configure a P-233 with a local linux install and ltsp with ltsp the default. It's a "hack" box for messing around with. But the video settings under ltsp are much better than what I'm able to acheive under 'Xfree86 -configure'. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mouse

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Allison
g file. I'm not sure of the > name off the top of my head. I think it's '.Xdefaults'... > > Jason > > >> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:37:34 -0400 >> From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I have a three button MSFT mouse wit

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Maintaining a hosts file on LTSP server

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Allison
Abdullah A. Al-Humaid wrote: > Is there any way to overcome this limitation? I am concerned because we > might end up with hundreds of DHCP clients if we implement it here. > > Thanks > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Humaid, Abdallah A (TCCOD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Ltsp-discuss] mouse

2002-08-20 Thread Tom Allison
I have a three button MSFT mouse with wheel for both my PC and my ltsp terminal. One ltsp doesn't have a 3-button mouse. logged directly into the PC, the mouse + wheel work fine. under ltsp it's a 2 button mouse. Device: = /dev/psaux (correct in ltsp.conf) Type ImPS/2 (ltsp.conf = PS/2) <<<

[Ltsp-discuss] sound

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Allison
Do I need any sound capabilities on the ltsp server to impliment ltsp-sound? Any diffs between something like alsa, oss...? --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and ap

[Ltsp-discuss] Graphics Depth

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Allison
I have an interesting question/observation. I installed ltsp for a box (Pentium 200 with a Cirrus 5446 vid chip) and am able to get a full 24-bit (or higher) color depth. Works great. I tried to install another variant of Linux on this box and the color depth was approximately 2. I can't fin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is a Dual CPU or a fast CPU better for LTSP?

2002-08-12 Thread Tom Allison
John_Cuzzola wrote: > > *** In my experience for 25-30 (or more) clients running heavy apps > simultaneously (Open Office / Star Office)...A dual processor with 2GB ram > works well. Also if you want to get more out of your set-up. Loose > Gnome/KDE and go with ICEwm/XFCE (or some other lightweig

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

2002-07-29 Thread Tom Allison
illa has this nasty problem with Flash. Besides not installing Flash on the server, are there other suggestions as to what to do? Other browsers that can handle this? This is about the only thing standing in the way right now on a technical level. -- Tom Allison ---

[Ltsp-discuss] source

2002-07-19 Thread Tom Allison
I was trying to find the source code for some of these packages. I am assuming that the .tgz are for slackware binaries. I was reading through the ltsp documentation for creating your own custom kernels. There seems to be some package or files that are needed for ltsp to create the correct fil

[Ltsp-discuss] pcmcia nic

2002-07-16 Thread Tom Allison
I got a notebook with a 3com pcmcia card (w/ dongle). I would like to make this into a ltsp client. The ltsp docs point me to the rom-o-matic as the easiest way to do things. But it doesn't seem to cover any pcmcia devices. So my question is this: Where do I go to find out how to build the d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New potential thin client

2002-07-12 Thread Tom Allison
Peter Billson wrote: > Ouch! 390 euros. > > Pete > I've noticed that it's really hard to break the $300 mark on these SBC thin-clients. But the really funny part is that I'm buying used Pentium MMX 233 PC for ~$60 each if not less. Considering I just priced out: MBM-7VDA-650 Soyo 7VDA Sock

[Ltsp-discuss] deb package

2002-07-08 Thread Tom Allison
I had a question about the deb packages: I didn't see anything on local sound support. Is that a consideration? -- 06:20:01 up 2 days, 11:11, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.16 Linux is the future... --- This sf.net email is sponso

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] where is start_ws

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Allison
Rafael wrote: > I am trying to setup the xwindow in my client PCs, but I can?t find > start_ws file. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Rafael > First, start up with a runlevel = 3, not 5. That will put you into the shell. They type sh /tmp/start_ws if there are problems with X, it will be logge

[Ltsp-discuss] moz-flash

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Allison
Has anyone heard of any progress with the Mozilla Browser and Flash? If it didn't crash, I would have a house full of converts and more. A lot of my kids schools are using flash-based websites on the internet in their classrooms. The fact that Moz + Flash + ltsp = :(... Is a realy show stopper

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: HeavyMetal Servers for LTSP

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Allison
John_Cuzzola wrote: > On 25 Jun 2002, Derek Zoolander wrote: > > >>John, you are lucky that you can use the LTSP in Schools, In Australia, >>particularly Queensland, our Politicians have sold out to the "Devil" >> > > *** I guess we are somewhat lucky so far...but it could happen here. We > ac

[Ltsp-discuss] HOME directory

2002-06-23 Thread Tom Allison
I noticed when I was doing the install last night that I do not have the local apps package installed. But I did enable the HOME option in the lts.conf file. I'm not really sure what that did, other than enable my existing home directories for me. If I didn't do this, what would my HOME direc

[Ltsp-discuss] test

2002-06-23 Thread Tom Allison
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[Ltsp-discuss] IRC

2002-06-22 Thread Tom Allison
Is there an IRC for the LTSP? -- 19:30:01 up 1 day, 3:00, 7 users, load average: 0.15, 0.11, 0.04 Linux is the future... --- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ ___

[Ltsp-discuss] dhcp servers

2002-06-22 Thread Tom Allison
I'm not clear on this. I already have a DHCP server working on the LAN and do not intend on using that boxen for the ltsp at all. That means no kernels, no applications... Since I have to put some variant of tftp on my server boxen, do I also have to install and configure the DHCP on this bo

[Ltsp-discuss] Rom-o-Matic

2002-06-22 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having trouble identifying the card to the level that is requested on the rom-o-matic.net website (reference in the docs). I have a 3c905-tx. lspci doesn't give me any other information. how would I determine the type of 3c905 card better. I have 1 of 14 to choose from and I really don't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Packages

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Allison
Alessandro Selli wrote: > Il giorno Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Tom Allison così ha scritto: > > |From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:41:59 -0400 > |Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Packages > | > |If this is GPL (it i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] network setup

2002-06-15 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tom, > > that all depends on which box is currently serving dhcp. > > If it is a linux box, then you can set 'next-server' to point > to the box that is hosting tftpd. > > Then, you need to set root-path to point to the box that > hosts nfs. > > And finally, in your

[Ltsp-discuss] network setup

2002-06-15 Thread Tom Allison
I'm wondering if I can do this, or how I would. I have one PC that is acting as my firewall/router/dhcp server for the home lan. It does not have the horsepower to do anything for ltsp. I have another computer for that - but it is also my workstation and is not a dhcpd server for the home lan

[Ltsp-discuss] Getting STarted ONE-OH-ONE

2002-06-14 Thread Tom Allison
I have an Athlon 650 with 768M of RAM, a fastethernet network, and an IBM 300GL Pentium 200 desktop PC. I want to play with ltsp. I've got Debian and I'm not afraid to use it... But before I shoot myself: Of the ltsp packages. does the kernel one provide a kernel for the tftp served clients?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Citrix Server

2002-06-04 Thread Tom Allison
Venkat Manakkal wrote: >Hi, > >I think the problem could be solved by having the user who has a >problem run vncserver with shared mode. Two vncviewer clients (one by >the user with the problem and the other by the SA) can connect to the >same desktop and "shadow" each other. > >---Venkat. > >Tom

[Ltsp-discuss] gentoo

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Allison
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[Ltsp-discuss] deb package

2002-05-16 Thread Tom Allison
Is there any reason why these packages are carried by the Debian package servers? If I wanted to include your (ltsp) site in my apt-get sources.list, what would be the correct line entry? ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is loo

[Ltsp-discuss] deb

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Allison
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[Ltsp-discuss] newbie Q

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Allison
How much computer do you need for a terminal? for a server? (assume no more than four hosts) Has anyone tried using a wireless NIC for the ltsp? ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardw