Re: [Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

[Jigish G. <cyb...@op...>]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert
<eil...@t-...> wrote:
> This might sound strange for some of you guys, but we're still working
> with LTSP 4.2 and a Suse 10.3 server.
>
> So I tried LTSP 5 on our system for the first time, using SuseEducation
> 11.2 and KIWI-LTSP 5. I prepared an older machine with a new system and
> set it up like described in the documentation. There were some glitches,
> and I'd like to discuss how to proceed.
>
> My first impression was that the clients take way much longer time to
> boot into the login screen. Loading initrd produces some long lines of
> dots and takes at least 5 sec (against half a second on our current
> system). Booting takes much longer, producing a lot of messages in the
> startup script like on any ordinary Linux system. All in all it lasted
> at least 90 sec or longer to boot a client.
>
> First question: Is that normal with LTSP 5 or can it be optimized?
>
> There are DellOptiplex PIII clients which seemed to run flawlessly.
>
http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Tips_and_Tricks#Increasing_performance_on_low_end_client_hardware
http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Troubleshooting


> The Siemens Scenic P6 ones, however, fail when switching into graphics
> mode. The screen goes black, and that's it. They have Matrox video cards
> (maybe 4, maybe 8 MB, I'm not sure right now) which aren't that bad, but
> it might need tweaking Xorg configuration.
>
Try XSERVER=vesa in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf

> So my second question: where do I have to go here?
>
Almost everything to get you started is here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Category:LTSP

Cheers

-J