[K12OSN] Can't specify modelines in 4.0.1

[Dennis Daniels]

I've experienced same with 4.0.1.
recently another user posted this link to an app that may in fact help 
with configuring older monitors. I've not tested it myself but at least 
one other user has confirmed it working.

http://www.thesymbiont.com/

You may also try:
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
which has links to two client configuring apps. There is reportedly a 
webmin mod that is to help with configuring clients but, apparently, has 
not worked in a long time, if ever.

Old monitors are plentiful and cheap, if K12LTSP had better support 
tools for them we'd so a lot more interest from cash strapped schools 
and businesses in the LTSP suite. /my $.02

best
Dennis


Caleb Wagnon wrote:
> Not knocking the produce itself...but I never made the move to the ltsp 4x
> series because I've never gotten it to work with any of my hardware here. I'm
> giving Fedora a shot at redemption and playing with 4.0.1.
> 
> I have *got* to specify the modelines for these proprietary thinknic monitors
> or they won't work. Whenever I add my line it gripes about a parse error way
> on down in lts.conf. (my addition may be around line 9 but the parse error is
> somewhere further down). No matter what I do nothing works until I remove the
> modelin addition. Here is my addition:
> 
> X_MODE_0           = "800x600" 60.21 800 840 1040 1120 600 602 614 640
> 
> I think Jim tried to help me out with this before and told me my parse
> problems were with the changover and quotation mark usage. However, I never
> could get this line to work and thus had to move to WBEL and old school ltsp.
> I'm hitting this again to see if someone can help me figure this out.
>