In the past there's been discussion about these old Dells with the i810 on the K12LTSP mailing list. Try searching their archives. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/
-Rob Tanner Bachman wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have three old Dell Dimension L800CXE computers laying around and I thought > that they would make great LTSP terminals for training purposes. I have a > whole company (about 60 terminals) running off of an LTSP server and I love > it. The problem is that the Dell systems have an Intel i810 video chip and > even though they connect to the xserver just fine, they lock up completely > after about a minute of clicking around. I've tried various X_MODE and > X_VIDEORAM and XSERVER settings in LTS.CONF, but I just can't get it to work. > I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem before and perhaps knows > a workaround or solution. I have gone through the LTSP Wiki and tried the > various suggestions, but nothing seems to work. I'm running LTSP v4.2 on > Fedora Core 5. > > Thanks, > Tanner > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:07:09 PM (GMT-0700) America/Phoenix > Subject: Ltsp-discuss Digest, Vol 15, Issue 30 > > Send Ltsp-discuss mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ltsp-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: I need to remote reboot a LTSP 5 client (Scott Balneaves) > 2. Re: I need to remote reboot a LTSP 5 client (Jean-Michel Dault) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:22:02 -0500 > From: Scott Balneaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I need to remote reboot a LTSP 5 client > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Sherwood Botsford wrote: > > >> Why are you reluctant to run ssh? >> > > The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly > a performance issue: if you've got 1ghz clients with goodly amount > of ram, yeah, it's a great solution. Problem is, we've got a lot > of people running some really low end hardware, who, understandably, > want all the bells and whistles, but have some acheingly bad hardware. > > Just a few weeks ago, I bumped into a fellow who's got a few hundred > machines with, like, 200 Mhz processors and 16 megs (!) of ram. They > worked, barely, on an older ltsp version with a 2.4 kernel, but now > don't under ltsp5, due to 2.6 kernels being much bigger, and the > size of the initramfs. Of course, he wanted sound, localdevs, graphics, > and any other bling going that he could. We couldn't make it work > for him, and the last time I talked, he was going to have to see about > finding more ram for the boxes. > > >> Method 2: >> On the server create a new file system. Can be quite small. >> Let it be mountable rw by all clients. Mount it as >> "remote_commands" In this directory, create a directory for each >> client, with the name of the cleint. >> >> On the client, create a cron job that periodically checks for the >> contents of /remote_commands/`hostname`/ >> If it finds a script there, it copies the script to /tmp, deletes >> the script from the server, then executes it. (Or the last line >> of the script can delete the script. >> > > I like this method, however, only thing I'd change would be to replace > cron with a small inotify util. It would be small, with a low memory > consumption. > > Scott > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.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
