[K12OSN] K12Linux F10 Display problem

[Rob Owens]

You can actually install LTSP 4.2 and 5 on the same server.  Here are my notes on how to do it on Debian:

http://www.mail-archive.com/ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net/msg33415.html

There may be some complications with sound.  I didn't fully test sound, but I have a feeling you'll have to choose between sound on version 4.2, or sound on version 5.

-Rob

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:02:31PM -0500, Steven Santos wrote:
> I wonder if it would be possible to use an EL5 server to boot the old
> clients, then hand off to a FC machine as the app server.  It might allow
> you to keep booting the old machines, and have the new server do all the
> heavy lifting.
> 
> ---
> Steven Santos
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> > Behalf Of Doug Simpson
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:20 AM
> > To: K12OSN
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12Linux F10 Display problem
> > 
> > Which leads me back to my original thing with K12LTSP.
> > 
> > Their early documentation stated that it was designed so that entities
> > could take advantage of their older hardware and not have to upgrade
> > all the "computers" to get the latest software. I took this to mean
> > just that. I can use my older hardware, and just upgrade the "server"
> > and let 'er fly. That has not been the case, however. . .
> > 
> > I had some terminals that worked GREAT under FC3 (with a bit if
> > tweaking in the configs) and one of them was a 486-DX40 with 24MB of
> > RAM. It did everything the grandyounguns wanted to do.
> > 
> > Next version, I could no longer get that one to work.
> > 
> > I do realize that a 486 is archaic and it wouldn't really hurt my
> > feelings to not use it, but from the get-go, the system was designed to
> > be able to use older hardware and not upgrade every time you turn
> > around. With each new distro, it seems to be getting farther and
> > farther away from that model.
> > 
> > JMHO - YMMV
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> > Doug Simpson
> > Technology Specialist
> > De Queen Public Schools
> > De Queen, AR
> > simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> > "A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned"
> > 
> > 
> > >>> John Baillie <jbaillie at stmarys-school.org> 2/4/2009 2:58 PM >>>
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We are still running K12LTSP release 4.2.1EL-1
> > 2 Servers with about 100 concurrent  users.
> > This setup has served us well and has been hands off for three plus
> > years.
> > 
> > I plugged in the k12 live usb (pretty slick) and booted a few of the
> > lab
> > terminals with mixed results.
> > We have a mixture of  CRTs and LCDs and some of them will not display.
> > The clients are all Compaq DS51 and DS5S
> > We ran into the same problem when we demoed the latest ubuntu a few
> > months back.
> > I'm guessing that the newer x servers don't work well with the older
> > hardware we have and it has nothing to do with a particular
> > distribution. It's looking like we will have to dig in and make some
> > manual adjustments to the display properties.
> > I'm looking around /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/X11 but it is not obvious where I
> > should make changes.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
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