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Re: Questions about lessdisk



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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:44:05 -0600
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org> wrote:

> > the first very good surprise is that the din keyboard is working
> > directly !
> 
> "din" ?

"Deutche Industrie Norm" Round plug like PS/2 but larger, used for very
old x86 keyboards. Much like (if not even equal to) the hi-fi plugs
before phono.


> > More difficult, how could i use an usb mouse on thin client ? (yes
> > i have usb on my dinosaur)
> 
> haven't ever tried it, so i can't say.

The easy approach is to install hotplug in the lessdisks chroot. That
may eat up too much memory on your old machine, though - so do this:

1) Install hotplug in your lessdisks chroot

2) edit your your /etc/lessdisks/terminals/<terminal_name>:

  runlevel=2

3) boot the diskless client and do an lsmod

4) edit your your /etc/lessdisks/terminals/<terminal_name>:

  runlevel=4
  modules="uhci_hcd psmouse"

(adjust the above to the actual list of USB- and mouse-related modules
- - quite possibly more is needed, and the order of them is important
too. Sorry, I have no concrete example, but I am positive it will work)

5) Remove hotplug from your diskless chroot

6) Boot your diskless client and hope it works...


 - Jonas

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