From: Martin Herweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Doghater wrote: > > I have finally got the client working (at 640x480 8bit color),
Programs that use GDK (such as Mozilla) don't work on 8bit displays. > > TuxRacer doesn't appear (OpenGL program...) You have a configuration problem in your OpenGL support, or you are using Mesa and are not waiting long enough for the host to do software rendering. Make sure you can run OpenGL programs with full hardware acceleration on the server console before worrying about the client side. That means, among other things, making sure you've not got Mesa installed on the server. Once you have the app running on the server, you need to check your LTSP X configuration; on the old LTSP version I use, this involved adding Utah-GLX. When configured correctly, clients with hardware accelerating chipsets will do well and the rest will do software rendering. The latter is useless for games, but is fine for presentation graphics and many scientific uses. > LTSP uses the _network-transparent_ X-Window client-server protocol. > All hardware-accelerated 3D Games are not using this protocol. Of course they do; all OpenGL programs tunnel their graphics traffic through the GLX encapsulation inside the X protocol. As part of that tunnel, DRI-capable (or equivalent) servers will determine whether the program is running locally and consider trying to bypass the GLX inefficiency. > If you want to play tuxracer on a Terminal you have to run it as > "local app" - see documentation. It'll certainly run better that way (without the network overhead), but it is wrong to say that you cannot run it (or FlightGear, for example) as a server-based application if you choose to do so. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ 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
