I use the IGEL terminals as LTSP terminals. The LTSP3 kernel will not boot on some of the models but I haven't got to the bottom of why yet (I haven't actually spent any time finding out why). I must say that I have spent more time getting IGELs to work properly than any other terminal type.
There are the steps required. * Remove the MSystems DiskonChip from the motherboard. This seems to steal memory from a required location which causes strange problems while booting ie no kernel command line can be passed!! * Set the bios to LAN boot * Set up PXE on the server * Create a PXE kernel and initrd * IGELs must use the old SVGA X server * It needs a special mode lines in lts.conf. These 3 work: X_MODE_0 = 800x600-igel 40.0 800 823 968 1056 600 601 605 X_MODE_0 = 800x600-72hz-igel 50.0 800 823 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +HSync +VSync X_MODE_0 = 1024x768_igel 65.0 1024 1047 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 * As I said earlier, it is not reliable with LTSP3.0 on some models so it might not work at all on the ones you have?? Regards Darryl Bond J�rgen Zimmermann wrote: > Hello, > I wonder if someone uses an Igel/J Terminal successfully with > LTSP. > > We have several Igel/J (hardware specs can be found on www.bcom.com.tw, > the 5BLSP-A based > Thin Client) and want to use them with LTSP, as the built-in system is > old and often > crashes in our environment. > > The BIOS shows an option "boot from LAN", but if I enable it, the system > freezes just > at the time when the LAN boot should occur. > > Has anyone gotten such a beast booting from LAN (should be PXE, as I > read from > the website)? > > If yes, what is the exact message from the BIOS? I suspect that our BIOS > lacks > the PXE boot code. > > Thank you anyway. > > So long, > J�rgen > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > _____________________________________________________________________ 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
