[K12OSN] Fedora-9 LTSP - Need help with various issues - probably FAQ

[Moon]

Maybe this will help with some of the documentation resources:

Linux Terminal Server Project Administrator's Reference

http://www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.html


On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 21:34 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:

> John Ellson wrote:
> > - Sound "works," if the classroom is silent and you have very good 
> > ears!      How do I increase the volume on all clients to a useful level?
> >   In /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/*/lts.conf we have:
> >      SOUND=True
> >      VOLUME=100
> >      HEADPHONE_VOLUME=100
> >      PCM_VOLUME=100
> >      FRONT_VOLUME=100
> >  There was recent discussion, for Ubuntu, at: 
> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Ubuntu/2008-08/msg01267.html
> >   should I be trying to apply this?
> 
> I have noticed this as well.  I am digging into this sometime soon myself.
> 
> > 
> > - If I plugin a USB memory stick in the client, I get an icon on the 
> > desktop, which I can open with nautilus, but none of the content is 
> > shown?    Where do I  look next?
> 
> I have never seen this personally, although I haven't used F9 for a few 
> months now.  Could you please try booting your server with the K12Linux 
> F10 Live Server and see if the clients behave the same there?
> 
> > 
> > 
> > - Where is the FAQ on how to update the client images properly?      I 
> > tried using yum in the chroot, but kernel updates didn't work, so now 
> > I'm  rebuilding the client images from scratch periodically.
> 
> After updating the kernels in the chroot, did you use 
> "ltsp-update-kernels" outside the chroot to copy the kernel from inside 
> the chroot to /var/lib/tftpboot/ARCH/?
> 
> > 
> > 
> > - Where is the step-by-step FAQ on configuring and installing local apps?
> 
> Umm... upstream should have this documented, if not please yell at them. 
>   The only thing unique about our local apps installation is yum instead 
> of apt.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > - Are last-modified-in-2004 FAQs like the one at:  
> > http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html still 
> > accurate?   I assume that the current documentation is supposed to be at 
> > https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/, but there seems to be a lot missing 
> > there.
> 
> Could you please make a list of specific documentation items you really 
> need rewritten for K12Linux?  The old docs are so old that it would be 
> better to write them from scratch.
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
> 
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