Ok, I'll try to give some more light into it: To make AIGLX working, nothing special is needed - just a thin client with supported enough graphic card - a card that can do DRI. Once you have DRI, you have AIGLX -> accelerated OpenGL for your remote desktop - that should be enough for google earth.
Now, with compiz it is little bit more complicated. To make compiz working, not only you need HW accelerated GLX, you also need a special GLX extension that compiz requires. Most modern drivers support it. If you have AIGLX working with all the extensions supported, you are still not sorted as: - some distros (like Ubuntu) have compiz hacked the way that it only accepts local X. With a bit effort, that can be sorted, though. - If your X server (running on the thin client) is a way different than the one shipped with the distro your LTSP server is running, you are stuck, too. For example, if your thin client is running Xserver 1.4 (i.e. Ubuntu-hardy based) and your LTSP server distro ships with Xserver 1.3 (i.e. RHEL-5) it also won't work or it will work, but it could be fairly unstable. I do not want to disappoint you - I just want to say that it can be done, but it (sometimes) require a piece of work and knowledge. In my previous note It was sort of complain to the Ubuntu developers. Assuming local X for compiz is not conceptually a good idea. Even if in 95% cases X runs locally you should not automatically count on it - beauty of X is the client-server mechanism that allows (among other benefits) LTSP existence. Do you think you can do Vista Aero via RDP protocol? Guess what the answer is... Ondrej David Burgess wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Ondrej Valousek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > My LTSP server is running Ubuntu Hardy and I can not use compiz > (desktop > effects) on LTSP clients. > Tracking down the problem: > /usr/bin/compiz is quite nasty written script which seems to only > counts > on the locally running X. > Give it a remote X (via XDMCP) and it gets very confused. > > Does anyone have an explanation for that? > It is running just fine with LTSP server running RHEL-5. > > Thanks, > Ondrej > > > I wish I did. I have to admit I'm a little confused, as you are the > one on this list that is usually touting aiglx and dri as a solution > to the lack of GL on ltsp thin clients, and now you're asking how to > make it work. > > Please don't read that as a criticism, because that's not how it's > intended. I'm just feeling a little deflated, because I had hopes of > running compiz, googleearth, etc. on my ltsp network, but if you > don't know how to make it hum then I don't know who would. > > Or do you have GL working in other programs such as googleearth, but > just not in compiz? Perhaps if you could write a quick howto on using > aiglx to get 3D accelleration on thin clients then some of your > understudies might be able to provide insight on the compiz problem. I > think I'll start another thread on this so as not to hijack this one. > > db > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
