[K12OSN] Problems with a kernel, new to the list :)

[EDULIX]

Hi Jim:

Firstly, Excuse my delay of an answer, but I'm full of exams at the high school. As you can see today's friday, and as I have no class in weekends, today I'm just free :).

Uhm, maybe it's a video setting problem, as I had to specify the Xfree driver to 'radeon', as it didn't worked with 'auto' (no image was displayed as far as I can remember), so it's possible it to be problematic with others than Xfree.

I've tried to use that solution that you suggested and it didn't worked either; I was given the same colored, weird, blinking.. screen :|. Maybe the fact that it's a laptop is important, because it uses LCD therefore that "X modes" you told me about simply don't get on well with it.

Therefore, I think that it'd be a good thing to try one of those machines that are going to be the terminals, so on Monday maybe I can catch one of them and deal with it. 

Have you got more ideas others than recompile the kernel? Apart of the EOI installation, I would like to have access to the local drives in my laptop terminal at home :PP.

About compiling myself the kernel, I'm likely to try it. I've already downloaded and installed lbe (apt is wonderful for that hehe) and I have a weekend for it. In any case, I'd like to have a kernel with lpp+supermount, so it's time for fun! Who knows, maybe lpp (as it uses) fix the problem :).

Thanks you all,
    Edulix.

> This looks like a video setting problem in the lts.conf file. 
> Try this:
> Edit your /etc/dhcdp.conf file and add a record for your client 
> computer.  Assign an IP number and a host name to the Mac address for 
> your client.
> Then edit /opt/lstp/i386/etc/lts.conf (I think that is it.  I am away 
> from my installation and am doing this from memory.)
> Add a record for that client host.  Include these line in your record:
> [ws001]
> X_MODE_0 = 640x480  31.5 640  664  704  832  480 489 492 520 +hsync +vsync
> X_MODE_1 = 800x600  40   800  840  968  1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
> X_MODE_2 = 1024x768 44.9 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 interlace
> (This assumes that you named the host [ws001] in your dhcpd.conf file.)
> You need to add the record in dhcpd.conf file so you can know exactly 
> which client gets the host name.  Then you add the record in lts.conf to 
> make sure the video settings are assigned to the correct host.
> Good luck and don't give up.  It will work.