This might not help and might not apply to you, but FWIW... You know how the instructions say that you only need to edit /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/[arch]/lts.conf and that /opt/ltsp/[arch]/etc/ltsp.conf is no longer needed? After much trial and error in Ubuntu 10.04.2's LTSP service, I found that I needed to have certain information in *both* files, and that I needed to rebuild the image every time I made a change.
I learned this after first following the instructions. They didn't work, so I thought, "fine.. I'll just do it the long way and rebuild the image every time." Suddenly, it worked. Then I decided to remove the file from /var/lib/blahblah because I figured I didn't need it... and doing that broke the video. I finally figured out that I couldn't make it work without files in both location. A symlink didn't work either... This applies to old Pentium 4 (32-bit) boxes with legacy Nvidia cards being served from an amd64 system. I've since upgraded the server to Ubuntu 11.04. I've kept the images made with 10.04.2 because I haven't gotten a new build to boot any of those machines yet. The behavior of the two lts.conf files changed subtly (no longer needed an xorg.conf file, etc) after the upgrade. I haven't made huge efforts, but neither have I seen it serve X to those machines properly without something in both files and an image rebuild for each change down in /opt. Be wary of instructions. They can be terribly misleading... :-) Especially if you have old or weird hardware. hth :-) Lachele On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Paul Humphreys <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear LTSP Colleagues > > NO XSERVER OPTION WORKS > > Booting a RISE-2917 thin client that has worked fine in other Linux > distributions, does not now detect its XSERVER nor any XSERVER > alternatives (I've tried them all) in LTSP on Edubuntu 11.4. > > All I get is error 'udev-fallback-graphics main process terminated with > status 1' before the thin client hangs. > > I have read everything I can find about XSERVER and X-WINDOW parameters > and have struggled with this over the last several days having tried a > zillion combinations of XSERVER settings in lts.conf. All other thin > clients in my network work OK except this one. > > I've also tried all the X_MODE_n settings etc etc. > > The RISE-2917 is an up-market thin-client manufactured in Taiwan. It > uses the 'via' chipset. But XSERVER=via does not change anything. > > Any help from anyone would be much appreciated. > > Thank you. Paul, from Oxford UK. > > > -- > Paul Humphreys > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. > Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. > Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- :-) Lachele Lachele Foley CCRC/UGA Athens, GA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _____________________________________________________________________ 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
