> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:25:34 -0500 (COT) > From: John Jairo de la Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problems with ltsp > > David, in your answer you tell me that the monitor can't handle the the > signal coming from the card, but when I use windows 98 or Red Hat on > this machine , there is no problems with the monitor, so I think the > problem is by the LTSP, isn't it?
John- The problem is that the settings that the X-server is using are telling the video card to produce a signal that the monitor is incapable of handling. If you choose to call this an "LTSP problem" that is your choice, but you would be facing the same problem with X-Windows and this video card and monitor combination even if you were not using LTSP. I would call it a "X-Windows vs. monitor" problem. When you had Red Hat installed locally on this machine, you probably easily avoided the problem because it came with a nice Xconfigurator/XF86Setup program to detect your video hardware and perhaps your monitor and it provided a ton of good settings options for X-Windows to work with. > For the other monitor, can I configure the lts.conf file of this way?: > > [ws02] > XSERVER=XF86_svga > X_MODE_0=800X600 > X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 > RUNLEVEL=5 > > but I don't know how it's configured the refresh rate for having > a slower refresh rate. It sounds like you are using XFree86 version 3.3.6 (your XSERVER setting starts with "XF86_"), in which case, you're best off installing Red Hat locally again (or putting the video card on an existing Linux box) and configuring XFree86 using XF86Setup or Xconfigurator. Then, copy the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to your LTSP server as something like 'XF86Config_stupid_monitor'. Then you can just reference that file in the lts.conf: http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0.0/ltsp-3.0.html#AEN1016 (XF86CONFIG_FILE option) NOTE: If you aren't using X336 (i.e. version 4.x), then this shouldn't be happening because 4.x does almost everything automatically. But since it is, I would switch back to 3.3.6, just to take more manual control of the situation. > I think in the parameter X_VERTREFRESH, but I don't know which are its > values. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html And once you get a display you can at least read, use xvidtune to perform fine adjustments. > Which values can I put in XSERVER? Read, please! http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0.0/ltsp-3.0.html#AEN1016 http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0.0/ltsp-3.0.html#AEN1529 http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0.0/ltsp-3.0.html#AEN1535 and if you still need more info, http://www.xfree86.org/support.html I believe in an earlier message that you indicated that you thought the problem might be with this setting. But if you are getting as far as you are, then this setting is fine. Otherwise you would get an error about "devices". > please, send me a example of this configuration because Tomorrow I must > deliver the solution for this problem Remember, you're getting this helpful advice *free of charge* from a community of volunteers. That's all I'll say to this. Jason PS: Jim is constantly repeating this on the list to people having problems configuring X on the station... Start in RUNLEVEL 3 and manually type /tmp/start_ws so you can see the errors on the console (Shift-PgUp to go back). You should be in RUNLEVEL 3 the whole time you are debugging this. _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
