[K12OSN] Macintosh Client Question

[Jim Kronebusch]

Shawn, how did you load the 5500's?  Did you do a minimal installation?
What script did you use to automatically start X with the -query?

This doesn't help you much, but it sure would help me get my 5500's
running :-)  I can get Yellow Dog loaded but don't know how to get X to
start automatically, right now I have to manually run it.

Thanks

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From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Shawn Powers
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:37 PM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: [K12OSN] Macintosh Client Question


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
Technology Director
Inland Lakes Schools
PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174
FAX: 509-356-7024
spowers at inlandlakes.org
http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org


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