Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-18 Thread John McCreesh
> For my servers, I typically don't even run Xwindows. I tried doing this by setting the runlevel of my RH7.1 server to 3, but then I couldn't get xdm to start on my LTSP clients (the clients just show the grey Xwindows screen with the X cursor). Any clues pleas? Thanks - John On Thu, 2001-11

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-16 Thread Erick S. Tyack
Hugo, I do not run KDE because of the amount of memory it requires for each session and also I cannot lock down the desktop (don't know how at the moment). Instead I use IceWM -- very light weight resource wise, and is compatable with gtk (gnome) applications and many qt (KDE) applications.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-15 Thread Prolinux
Thanks, I undestand better now, but what about KDE? I would like to give my users the friendliest environment posibble so I plan to let them use StarOffice, Konqueror/Java, Kmail, Koffice, KDEgames, KDE development environment, Xchat and Gaim. Is that too much for my hardware? (P3-800-1Gb-40HDD_UD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-15 Thread Jim McQuillan
Hugo, The video card in the server has NOTHING to do with the video performance on the workstations. You could run a server with no video card at all, if you wanted. For my servers, I typically don't even run Xwindows. I would go for the absolute minimum video ram on the server, leaving that r

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-15 Thread Jürgen Zimmermann
The server's video card is absolutely irrelevant to the terminals. Every terminal needs its own video card, which provides all video features available to the terminal. No more, no less, as no hardware can be/is shared... So long, Jürgen ___

[Ltsp-discuss] Server video ram

2001-11-14 Thread Prolinux
I have a P3 LTSP server with 512Mb Ram shared with on board video memory, I have the option to assign from 1mb to 32mb for video ram. I would like the best performance on my terminals so how much ram should I choose for video? How important is server video card for overall performance of ltsp term