On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 01:05, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > > Well, not really a suggestion, but it seems rather weird to me that a > > thin client could have a CDROM drive to boot Knoppix. Am I the only one? > > Most of our thin clients are old desktop machines. While we might remove > the cd-rom, etc when rolling them out we can certainly use one while > initially configuring them. Really it's a monitor thing not a pc thing so > what I hope to do is collate settings for each monitor type. The monitor > could always be hooked to a desktop machine just for this. > > Again, these are things I would have no problem doing and I recently talked > a teacher through it over the phone, but it's a pretty complicated sequence > to document and recommend to a beginner. > > > Better use some LTSP modified just to do that, but then, why doesn't > > LTSP provide it from the first time? > > I'm unsure how the main installer detects hardware (I suspect read-edid > package as it is mentioned in xserver-xfree86 Debian package description) > but it gets it bang on even on the old monitors. Apparently LTSP uses > something a little less clever. Perhaps ltsp4 will be better? The monitor-detection stuff is based on DDC, which needs both graphics card and screen to embed a special circuit just to do that. As such, old hardware you got won't certainly have that. I think best method in these cases is still to use reasonable defaults or consult screen documentation (on paper or online). I know this can be really tough.
> Gavin -- Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BeezNest s.a r.l.
