Does anyone have contacts at OO.o they could mention this to? If we just had a way to prevent applications from trying to cache stuff in video RAM that they don't need to, about 80% of my thin client crashing problems would be solved.
Todd On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:57:35 -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote > Any progress on the issue of Firefox and OpenOffice trying to cache > images in the thin client memory and then dying that Jim Kronebusch > identified a while ago? > > I'm still seeing an awful lot of terminal crashes. During my planning > period today, a student was working on an Impress presentation and, > after the third crash, finally complained about it. I sent him to work > on the monitor connected to the server and his problems, as expected, > went away. Fixing this would make my students' complaints about "Why > don't we have Windows machines?" go down considerably. > > Todd Firefox, yes, but you won't see that until FF3 is released. OpenOffice, no. The only fix right now is the XRAMPERC hack which I think is included in Gutsy, which only fixes the client from crashing, but you still loose the offending application data. I never did get to filing a bug with OpenOffice, if you wanted to do that it would be a good start. Xorg still thinks this is an impossible problem to solve, somehow making it not their problem. And unfortunately all these issues are only seen with thin clients, making the focus less a priority. Not that they aren't there in fat clients, just not noticed since the machine doesn't lock up. I think the OLPC guys were hammering on Xorg for this as well. I was hoping since they are a fairly large project they might have better luck. Ubuntu is large as well, but thin clients aren't the focus. Where OLPC only runs in a low resource environment, so it is there complete focus. Jim -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users