Pete; Thanks for the info.
Pete wrote:
Lanman wrote:
I wanted to ask a few questions regarding the basic setup of LTSP.
1) Is there a list of the abbreviations for the video driver modules which can be used in configuring the 'lts.conf' file? I can't seem to find one anywhere, and without it I'm forced to leave my terminals set to 'auto'.
Try the vidlist file in the same directory as the lts.conf
Jim had mentioned it a little while ago, and it turns out that it was exactly what I was looking for. Go Figure! Right under my nose, too.
In previous versions of LTSP, I used to be able to point to specific modules with certain comments in the config file (typical example - XSERVER = XF86_SVGA), but I can't remember where to find that list.
Is there some sort of cross-reference list that tells us which module to apply for particular video cards?
No (AFAIK) but there is a way to figure it out, I will try to post a how to later today or tomorrow on ltsp.criticalcontrol.com
Pete - the vidlist provides me the info I needed to do exactly this. No Howto required for me now, but others may need it. Thanks.
2) The 'ltspcfg' config package allows you to quickly create the basic config files needed for LTSP which is a major time saver. But a curious thing seems to happen as well.
In all my experience, DHCP servers hand out their IP addresses in reverse order - that is they start at the highest IP address and work down to the lowest, but 'ltspcfg' creates a hosts file that is backwards from that.
Am I way off here, or would it be possible to reverse the order of the host-entries in the hosts file? The only reason I ask is because the hosts file contains enough entries to fill an entire subnet, and if someone had to edit that hosts file for an entire subnet it could take a lot of time.
I am not sure why one should need a host file in the first place... Mine has been empty since day one, never a problem...
Pete, The hosts file can be set as the first location to probe for relevant host info. Typically having a comprehensive hosts file will allow you to search for a PC by hostname faster (YMMV) since the hosts file is the first reference that your PC will look at before going to Internal or External DNS. Also, if your DNS server is under heavy use for other services running on that server, it will reduce network traffic a bit if the hosts file is up-to-date.
As for LTSP, the hosts file should allow you to write script files using the host names instead of IP addresses which should help in diagnosing errors in those scripts.
If anyone wants to jump in here and flesh out the details, nows the time. I may be missing a few points here as well.
If you try starting your terminals one at a time, you should see that the highest IP is leased out to the terminal that requests an IP first.
I've never seen a DHCP server that does it the other way around, but if it can be done, then I'm all for it.
If it can work in a reversed manner, that would certainly simplify things with the hosts file.
-- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712
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