I have clients with NVIDIA nvs300 cards installed in HP z210's. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 because I haven't gotten any of the other versions to work with the cards at all. Getting them to work was a challenge, but well worth it. If someone has trouble doing that, ask, and I'll tell what I know.
I haven't figured out a way to have the clients run Unity 3D at all. They can run Unity 2D, xfce and lxde. When you try to start 3D, the login screen appears and username and password are accepted. You can also hear the Ubuntu welcome music, but the session never starts and the user is very soon cycled through a blank screen then out to the login screen again. The server has just the system-board video card, so I suspect there is some translation issue between what happens on one card versus the other, but I am absolutely not an expert, so that isn't much more than wild speculation. If you need speed, using ltsp-localapps can be good. You have to add LOCAL_APPS=true to lts.conf to use it. If you do that, the system can, if configured correctly, use the client resources -- cpu, memory & video. For normal, workaday tasks, it is nice to have the centralized resources of the server. But, when speed is an issue, we can use the local graphics exclusively. So far, it works well. There are some configuration challenges, depending what you want to do. Again, ask if you need more info. Personally, I prefer xfce to 2D. Not sure how that compares to 3D. I liked the classic Ubuntu screen better, than Unity, too. I haven't messed a lot with lxde yet. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, P Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I installed xfce4 > Works well > Peter > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Sandra Schlichting > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > You can change the windows manager for everyone or individual clients by >> > using the LDM_SESSION in your lts.conf file: >> > >> > Here is an example for my display screen in the reception area: >> > >> > [<mac address>] >> > X_BLANKING=0 # Don't ever turn off the screen. >> > LDM_SESSION=/usr/bin/openbox-session >> > >> > There is also a 2d version of unity you may want to check out, it maybe >> > much faster on your thin clients: >> > >> > |sudo apt-get install unity-2d| >> >> Great, I will do that >> >> unity-2d feels faster than 3D, but it is very hard to tell if unity-2d >> is just as fast as Gnome2/MATE. Are there way to performance test >> that? >> >> Right now have I install Linux Mint's fork of Gnome 2 >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/install-gnome-3-with-mint-gnome-shell-extensions-or-mate-on-ubuntu-11.10-oneiric-ocelot-p2 >> >> but it replaces 3 of the Ubuntu packages in doing so. E.g. libgail18, >> so I am a bit scared of this solution... >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization >> This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point >> of >> discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging >> model >> of a cloud services business. Read Now! >> http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > -- > Peter D Knight > 22 Westfort Rd > Houtbay > 7806 > +27(21)7903579 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization > This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of > discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model > of a cloud services business. Read Now! > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- :-) Lachele Lachele Foley CCRC/UGA Athens, GA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
