It sounds like you are on the right track with suspecting the server video troubles are related to the client. Those ZBox clients are ION2 (nVidia) based. I'm assuming you followed the Ubuntu LTSP wiki to install the nVidia proprietary drivers? Note that you cannot run a mix of graphics chips with that driver, all thin clients must be nVidia.
The fact that the screen looks the same whether at the shell or not points to a kernel framebuffer driver issue. By default I believe the GPL nVidia driver (nouveau) is used and auto-loaded as a module, you may need to blacklist it. I had good results with nouveau and LTSP on Ubuntu 10.04LTS, perhaps the nouveau driver is out of date in your Debian? On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Todd Karwoski <karwo...@umd.edu> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I'm helping a colleague set up LTSP on an updated beta version of > Debian Wheezy and I've run into a a display issue. I believe the thin > client (Zotac Zbox) is booting correctly, but I don't get a usable > login screen when it finishes. The screen looks like it's covered in > static and sometimes the mouse pointer appears as a larger square. > I've tried changing the SCREEN_07 in lts.conf from ldm to shell, but > the screen looks the same. I also tried PXE booting from my laptop > (Acer Aspire One netbook) but the display looks the same, so i think > it must be a configuration on the server. > > I noticed some video issues on the server itself, so I installed the > Nvidia drivers from the Debian repo and that seems to have cleared > that problem up. I was hoping it was a similar problem with the thin > client, but apparently not. > > Any suggestions? Thanks. > > - -- > Todd Karwoski > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQDW55AAoJEO+kaA7y5bNWoLgIAJ7DCV4JpqMCFoB/l332Qpnk > Wv57KsvmltsVYJT/8gGhNo611Ry4tU103Hk2vkYmEN42cZ8B/TeIDnds2PV46LsJ > V9dO9zj27iNefUTojwRHTaKSPP4AX6iYF8Z1nxH6r1dmcH2zTp8tAg09lxIz1xDZ > NhscmjS/ssptQjKpGRTm6Xq+nxkDeeOiSad3aR+i0+pVIB+uwdpPsr/YacugV0eY > Cybn4VwicZqhJ1zsvrNv094w/Z11nRwBmBk3Nx2eJhX3KRAtSUqYzzdYrtNsJCOL > 0kJX+0EuNX5t98ui8YYRu6tFwE1kq44lSkAlrm8hHuyBuutlIHPvT1BFo5wjpGo= > =wqUH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- Jay Goldberg | AvianBLUE Network Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
