Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-28 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/26/2011 04:46 AM, Ben Green wrote: > Quoting Jeff Siddall: > >> >> Don't want to rain on your parade, but my experience with nVidia >> proprietary drivers is that they are a nightmare even on a standard fat >> desktop. I would count on nVidia screwing things up, which means you >> are probab

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-27 Thread Jay Goldberg
This message somehow slipped through the cracks! Unfortunately I couldn't verify this because I reverted to the old chroots, I needed sound and wanted to go mainline again 2011/11/19 Dr. Rüdiger Kupper (Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt) > Hello Jay, > > > Furthermore, my sound on the ION2 clien

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-26 Thread Asmo Koskinen
15.11.2011 14:13, Jay Goldberg kirjoitti: > Hi Christoffer, thanks for the reply. I actually linked that article in my > message, basically I'm looking for solutions to use the same chroot for > both NVidia and non-NVidia clients rather than building and maintaining two. Here is a story behind tha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 25-11-2011, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 20:34 -0500, ο/η Jay Goldberg έγραψε: > I've found that as fat clients these aren't quite as "snappy" as I'd > like them to be. With regards to video performance, fat clients are *exactly* as fast as local, standalone installations. You can have 3D acceleration

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-26 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Jeff Siddall : > > Don't want to rain on your parade, but my experience with nVidia > proprietary drivers is that they are a nightmare even on a standard fat > desktop. I would count on nVidia screwing things up, which means you > are probably stuck with two chroots. Wow, that's not my e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-25 Thread Jay Goldberg
I mistakenly thought that the nVidia proprietary drivers would offer better performance in 2D and video (VDPAU), and prevent the random hangs that one user had been experiencing (the nouveau driver is marked as experimental in Ubuntu 10.04). I've found that as fat clients these aren't quite as "sna

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-25 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/14/2011 10:00 PM, Jay Goldberg wrote: > There's got to be a better way to boot a mix of NVidia clients and > regular clients without maintaining 2 separate chroots > , right? It's a > shame because these little ION2 PCs are slick, and chea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-19 Thread Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt
Hello Jay, > Furthermore, my sound on the ION2 clients no longer works do you, by any chance, see processes of "gst-plugin-scanner" running that never finish? I had this problem, sound would be broken, and it looks as if it was related to the NVidia video driver... Rüdiger -- StR Dr. Rüdiger Ku

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-15 Thread Jay Goldberg
Hi Christoffer, thanks for the reply. I actually linked that article in my message, basically I'm looking for solutions to use the same chroot for both NVidia and non-NVidia clients rather than building and maintaining two. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:44 AM, christoffer krakou wrote: > Hello jay >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-15 Thread christoffer krakou
Hello jay the Ubuntu community has written this on usin ION clients. It details using different xorgs for different clients https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon I hope this can poke you in the right direction On 11/15/2011 04:00 AM, Jay Goldberg wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've

[Ltsp-discuss] Nvidia ION2 fat clients mixed with other hardware

2011-11-14 Thread Jay Goldberg
Hi everyone, I've been running LTSP on the Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11, which is an Intel Atom D510 with an NVidia. I tried to outsmart the gods by installing the proprietary nvidia-current driver in the chroot and simply forcing the driver by using the XSERVER=nvidia parameter in lts.conf. I figured I co