Re: LTSP 3/4 XServer and old monitors
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Well, not really a suggestion, but it seems rather weird to me that a
> thin client could have a CDROM drive to boot Knoppix. Am I the only one?
Most of our thin clients are old desktop machines. While we might remove
the cd-rom, etc when rolling them out we can certainly use one while
initially configuring them. Really it's a monitor thing not a pc thing so
what I hope to do is collate settings for each monitor type. The monitor
could always be hooked to a desktop machine just for this.
Again, these are things I would have no problem doing and I recently talked
a teacher through it over the phone, but it's a pretty complicated sequence
to document and recommend to a beginner.
> Better use some LTSP modified just to do that, but then, why doesn't
> LTSP provide it from the first time?
I'm unsure how the main installer detects hardware (I suspect read-edid
package as it is mentioned in xserver-xfree86 Debian package description)
but it gets it bang on even on the old monitors. Apparently LTSP uses
something a little less clever. Perhaps ltsp4 will be better?
Gavin
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