On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:57:19PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, sorry for the subject, i'm having different problems, and
> doesn't want to start a discussion for each of them. So...
Since you've told us absolutely nothing about your environment other
than you have 20 terminals and one server, it's kind of hard to help.
There's a TON of things we'd need to know, like:
1) What kind of workstations
2) What kind of server
3) What distro of Linux
4) What kind of network? Switch? Hub?
5) Does the server have 2 network cards or one
.... etc.
However, lets see what we can do.
> 1) Some terminals have problems with the keyboard, it is repeating
> letters. Something like, if i press a ONE time i get aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .
> How can i fix this?
This, to me, sounds like it may be related to 3). More on this below.
I'm assuming you've substituded other keyboards and/or switched things
around?
> 2) How can i conf us keyboards to accept pressing ' and them a to form ? ?
> On ltsp if a press ' and a i get 'a (keyboard layout, right?)
How I've done it on my terminals here is to add a line:
xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = Multi_key"
Somewhere in my X startup. This turns the Windows key on my keyboard
into the multikey. So if I hold down the windows key, and type ' a I
get an ?. There are others on this list who have done international
keyboard support, and know more about it than I do, so hopefully they'll
answer. If you search the mailing list archives, I'm sure this has been
covered before several times. Google is your friend.
> 3) Some terminals have a looong boot time because they get stuck in nfs
> for a while (some timeouts) how can i solve this?
I suspect that this is causing 1 and 3. Two things to check for:
1) in your server, you should have a good network card. By good, I mean
one that does interrupt queuing. An Intel Ether 100, or a 3com 3c509
would work well. An LTSP network generates a lot of network traffic,
and you want your server not to be dropping packets.
2) LTSP networks run much, MUCH better on switches as opposed to hubs.
Switches manage traffic, whereas with hubs, you can get collisions that
require packet retransmits. One symptom of this is NFS slowdowns.
Check those two things.
Scott
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