I ran into some brick walls while trying to make a Toshiba notebook (Tecra 500CDT) into an LTSP terminal. Input on any of these is appreciated very much. I have desktop terminals working, so the server install is probably OK.
1. cardmgr: get dev info failed This error with 2 different multi-function cards. 2. cardmgr doesn't match kernel version, fails to load cards Thinking I'd get around #1 with a kernel and /etc/pcmcia file set known to work with these cards, I copy the necessary /etc/pcmca files into the initrd image and kernel onto the disk. This gives the error above. I don't understand it since they're both 2.4.18, but maybe System.map... anyway... 3. /linuxrc: cardmgr: No such file or device. I copy the cardmgr binary from another laptop running a kernel compiled from the same sources (but different modules, since there wasn't a 1.44MB restriction for it) into the initrd replacing the original. This time the above error. Do the binaries need to be tagged somehow? Even a symlink in /sbin gives the same error, so probably not a path problem. 4. XFree86 4.0 crashes with sig 11. I now try an ethernet-only (single function) card. Kernel comes up fine, gets address, gets X. Crashes, as above. I make it use the XF86Config from the sme notebook when it runs standalone. Same result. 5. XFree86 3 wierdness. I try a XF 3 XF86_SVGA server. Login box comes up! Flashes! Again! Keeps flashing! Hmmm.. looks like a modeline problem. I use an XF86Config from another laptop that is also 800x600 (the modelines don't vary between notebooks, all LCDs similar that way, I think). This time X crashes, signal 8. 6. OK, you win. I let the machine boot up off HDD, then start X with -query <LTSP_server>. All OK now. Runs like the wind, etc. Thanks, -bhaskar -bhaskar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
