[K12OSN] Macintosh Client Question

[Shawn Powers]

Hello all,

I have been experimenting with some old Apple PowerMac 5500 machines, and running them as "fat clients" to access my LTSP server.  They have yellowdog 3.0.1 installed, and automatically start an X session with the -query flag...  It works well, except that when running mozilla, flash sites cause mozilla to die (no error windows, just dies).

I seem to remember this being a problem before with older i386 hardware running as clients... but I dont' remember what the problem was... maybe RAM in the system?

I have:

32MB System RAM on the Mac
384MB Swap on the Mac

A P133 with only 16MB of ram booted right next to it handles the flash fine...  Does the flash somehow clash with the PPC processor that is running the X process?  I don't see how this setup is different than when I run X -query from my OSX machine...  I think flash works then just fine.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Shawn

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Shawn Powers
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Inland Lakes Schools
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