Hi folks I'm testing out the newly-released LTSP 4.1 as a replacement for LTSP 3, which is what I've been using in production so far (though I have a few terminals on 4.0betasomething).
All went rather well overall, but I have found one workstation that plays up. It appears to be an issue with Xorg, or the LTSP build of it. The workstation has a sis 300/305 in it: (--) PCI:*(0:18:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter rev 144, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xfece0000/17, I/O @ 0xec00/7 which is detected as I'd expect by LTSP, but the X server dies: (==) SIS(0): Backing store disabled (==) SIS(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) SIS(0): Using SiS300/315/330 series HW Xv (II) SIS(0): Direct rendering disabled (==) RandR enabled Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Required symbol GlxSetVisualConfigs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved! due to what look like dri issues. It's worth noting that LTSP appears to enable the kernel framebuffer, and that Xorg looks like it's trying to work with that. Here is the LTSP generated config file and the server log. Sorry about the nasty URLs. http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/files/6c07048ef8173e290d0c618c1b38e025/XF86Config.1 http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/files/83f45f0761627b7547edd16cdf53c9c5/Xorg.0.0.log I didn't find anything on 'sis' or this error message in bugzilla or the archives, at least on a fairly quick search. So ... thoughts? Driver bug, build problem, gross configuration abuse by me, or something else? I'm using the LTSP binaries from http://ltsp.org/ltsp-4.1/ and installed using ltsadmin. Most workstations worked fine out of the box - though it might be an idea to make SCREEN_01 default to 'startx' if no SCREEN_?? entries are specified, or add the SCREEN_?? entries to the lts.conf.readme . The workstation I tested with a GeForce 4 MX failed to detect the video driver and ran as VESA - a quick XSERVER=nv fixed that. I'll get a log for you if that'd be useful. The built-in USB support is very nice, and the availibility of ssh on the workstations is absolutely wonderful when trying to copy logs etc - no more tricks with wget and netcat! I'm also hoping NFS swap and X will be a bit smoother with the updated kernel, as with v3 I've had the odd random workstation crash. If I can get this sis-card based workstation working, I'm all set to upgrade :-) I also like the built-in SNMP support, by the way. It lets me drop my ugly hacked-in snmp support I added locally to v3. -- Craig Ringer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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
