Hi, thanks for sharing your experience with lucid... the last error message you mentioned ((EE) VESA: kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load....) reminded me I had read something in the release notes, which might be relevant?
from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004 : "Working around bugs in the new kernel video architecture Ubuntu 10.04 LTS enables the new kernel-mode-setting (KMS) technology by default on most common video chipsets. While this is a major step forward for the graphics architecture in Ubuntu, in some rare cases KMS will prevent your video output from working correctly, or from working at all. If you need to disable KMS, you can do so by booting with the nomodeset option. You can also save this setting so that it's applied at every boot by adding it to your grub config (for GRUB 2: edit /etc/default/grub and add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, then run sudo update-grub; for GRUB 1: edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add nomodeset to the line beginning with # kopt=, then run sudo update-grub). (533784, 541501)" regards, Bettina Am 07.05.2010 18:22, schrieb Pierre Yann Baco: > Hello. > > 1°) Brand new fresh install of Lucid Lynx (Desktop) + LTSP 5.2 + all > Lucid updates. Usual install procedure: > - Run ltsp-build-client > - Chroot to /opt/ltsp/i386 to set root passwd > - exit chrooted env > - ltsp-update-image > - Setup /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf > - NO lts.conf > > Boot thin client: I tried 1 EeeBox and 1 IBM ThinkCentre. LDM shows up > normally. Enter login+passwd. Accepted. > > Then I get a full Lucid Gnome desktop... but completely inverted > (bottom-up and right-left)!!! > > I spent a couple of minutes wondering about the LTSP team sense of > humor, but I decided they're were not this naughty :) Finally I found > this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/441586 > > Looks like proprietary Nvidia drivers on the server are messing with > libGL and generate havoc in thin client X config (even with Non Nvidia > GPU). > > Solutions (as stated in bug report): > - disable compiz for login accounts used on thin clients > - or uninstall Nvidia proprietary drivers on server > > 2°) Once initial fun solved (disabling compiz), i created the following > lts.conf: > [default] > XSERVER="vesa" > LDM_DIRECTX=True > CONSOLE_KEYMAP="fr" > > I got the following message when booting a thin client: > (process:276) : Glib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown > user id (0). > > Thin client stopped here. I switched (CTRL+ALT+F1) to thin client > console, to check the local X.org log file, where I found: > > (EE) VESA: kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load.... > > A local "ps aux" shows X is <defunct>. Back to the server, I tried > different XSERVER values in lts.conf (radeon, vga) and I got the same error. > > Should I conclude you can't use specific XSERVER values in lts.conf when > Nvidia proprietary drivers are installed on the server? > > Pierre. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
