Hi Christoffer, thanks for the reply. I actually linked that article in my
message, basically I'm looking for solutions to use the same chroot for
both NVidia and non-NVidia clients rather than building and maintaining two.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:44 AM, christoffer krakou
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello jay
>
> the Ubuntu community has written this on usin ION clients. It details
> using different xorgs for different clients
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon
>
> I hope this can poke you in the right direction
>
>
>
>
> On 11/15/2011 04:00 AM, Jay Goldberg wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been running LTSP on the Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11, which is an Intel Atom
> > D510 with an NVidia.
> >
> > I tried to outsmart the gods by installing the proprietary
> > nvidia-current driver in the chroot and simply forcing the driver by
> > using the XSERVER=nvidia parameter in lts.conf. I figured I could just
> > add this line for ION2 clients and boot the rest of the clients (a mix
> > of Pentium/Celeron Ds with ATI RV610 cards) on the same chroot. It
> > worked...or so I thought. Turns out that the nvidia-current does more
> > nefarious things than just putting a driver in
> > /usr/share/xorg/modules/drivers and rebuilding the initrd with the
> > driver. It also messes with glx, moving libraries and other things. For
> > example /etc/alternatives/gl_conf has these two lines:
> > /usr/lib/nvidia-current
> > /usr/lib32/nvidia-current
> >
> > So basically it broke acceleration for the other fat clients using that
> > chroot.
> >
> > Furthermore, my sound on the ION2 clients no longer works, it used to
> > work with the onboard Realtek chip through the 3.5mm output. Two cards
> > are listed in alsamixer now, HDA Intel and HDA NVidia (which shows no
> > controls).
> >
> > There's got to be a better way to boot a mix of NVidia clients and
> > regular clients without maintaining 2 separate chroots
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AtomIon>, right? It's a
> > shame because these little ION2 PCs are slick, and cheap, but it's
> > obvious that NVidia was not counting on users booting different hardware
> > all of the time.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated, and I'm sure others are interested in
> > hearing more about using NVidia and VDPAU on thin clients.
> > --
> > Jay Goldberg
> >
> >
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> Christoffer Krakou
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