Is local dev support enabled by default under Feisty?

[john]

Hi all,

Ok, I can add folks to the fuse group. Should I follow the Howto on
the k12ltsp site or is this documented somewhere else for Feisty?

Thanks for the responses!

John

On 8/10/07, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:52:33PM -0700, john  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have deployed Edubuntu 7.04 and realized that users can't use  thumb
> > drives. They don't show up on the desktop , nor when I do "lspci" or
> > do "mount"
>
> Are you running a stock Edubuntu with the Gnome desktop?  And have you added
> the users who you want localdevices to work with into the fuse group?
>
> > Because of the amount of memory  I am using with this system (8 Gigs)
> > I am using the "linux-image-server" kernel rather than the stock
> > kernel shipped with edubuntu.
> >
> > Is this the problem?
>
> No, shouldn't be.
>
> > If so what is the path to resolution? I assume
> > that I need to compile in support or should I follow the method used
> > in LTSP 4.2 to enable audio
> > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev#Overview
> > I'd appreciate some pointers if you have any.
>
> Should work "Out of the box" if the users have been added to the fuse group.
>
> Check that first, we can take other steps after that if there's still a problem.
>
> > Finally, it seems like folks are really starting to ramp up their
> > Edubuntu/LTSP installations in a big way would it make sense to have
> > an edubuntu kernel that takes into account the fact that folks are
> > going to be using more robust systems with more than 4 Gigs of ram?
>
> There is one: the linux-image-server image.  Keep in mind that people use
> Edubuntu all over the world, and for now, the default of the standard kernel
> will support far more systems.  And for the lucky ones that have more, the
> problem's easy to solve.  It should, however, be documented in the handbook.
> I'll look at adding it this go-round.
>
> Scott
>
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