Am 27.05.2010 10:40, schrieb Jigish Gohil: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert > <eilert-sprac...@t-online.de> wrote: >> This might sound strange for some of you guys, but we're still working >> with LTSP 4.2 and a Suse 10.3 server. >> >> So I tried LTSP 5 on our system for the first time, using SuseEducation >> 11.2 and KIWI-LTSP 5. I prepared an older machine with a new system and >> set it up like described in the documentation. There were some glitches, >> and I'd like to discuss how to proceed. >> >> My first impression was that the clients take way much longer time to >> boot into the login screen. Loading initrd produces some long lines of >> dots and takes at least 5 sec (against half a second on our current >> system). Booting takes much longer, producing a lot of messages in the >> startup script like on any ordinary Linux system. All in all it lasted >> at least 90 sec or longer to boot a client. >> >> First question: Is that normal with LTSP 5 or can it be optimized? >> >> There are DellOptiplex PIII clients which seemed to run flawlessly. >> > http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Tips_and_Tricks#Increasing_performance_on_low_end_client_hardware > http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Troubleshooting
Great links, thanks for these! > > >> The Siemens Scenic P6 ones, however, fail when switching into graphics >> mode. The screen goes black, and that's it. They have Matrox video cards >> (maybe 4, maybe 8 MB, I'm not sure right now) which aren't that bad, but >> it might need tweaking Xorg configuration. >> > Try XSERVER=vesa in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf I'll try and see :-) > >> So my second question: where do I have to go here? >> > Almost everything to get you started is here: > http://en.opensuse.org/Category:LTSP > > Cheers > > -J > Thank you for the links, this will get me on. Regards Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
