I'm testing a new install of Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 with an i386 chroot. The client is an Intel D525MW board which I'm using successfully with an Ubuntu 11.04 server.
The thin client is connected by VGA to an LCD monitor with 1920x1080 resolution. When the thin client boots, the resolution in Ubuntu appears correct, however once rdesktop starts, the resolution goes to something wider, where the pixel size looks native but the mouse pointer can be moved off the right side of the screen. I had this same problem with Ubuntu 11.04, but with one difference: in 11.04 the rdesktop resolution matches the screen resolution, ie, the Windows logon screen is centered to the right of the monitor's center. In 11.10 however, the Windows logon screen has a resolution of 800x600 and is constrained to the top left corner of the screen. The mouse pointer can move off the Windows desktop, but transforms from a Windows pointer to an Ubuntu pointer in doing so. The fix in Ubuntu 11.04 was to add the following two options in lts.conf: X_MODE_0=1920x1080 XRANDR_DISABLE=True Doing so in 11.10 causes Ubuntu to assume the proper resolution of 1920x1080, but Windows is still cramped in the corner with 800x600 res. If I use only the option XRANDR_DISABLE=True then the Ubuntu boot splash screen appears to have normal resolution, but by the time the Windows logon screen appears Ubuntu has switched to a resolution of 1024x768 and Windows again is 800x600. I also tried using only the option X_MODE_0=1920x1080 and this results in an Ubuntu resolution of 1024x768 and a Windows resolution of 800x600. Besides using updated versions of Ubuntu on the server and chroot, one other important difference between the two systems is the version of rdesktop. In the 11.04 chroot I'm using rdesktop 1.7.0-1 from the otto-kesselgulasch PPA due to a bug with the Windows mouse pointer in the main repo version. In the 11.10 chroot I'm using the main repo's rdesktop package, as Otto doesn't have an rdesktop package for oneiric and the mouse pointer bug appears to have been corrected. I did attempt to manually install the natty rdesktop package from the PPA but got a dependency error and decided to post here before pursuing it. Any ideas? db ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
