Thin clients partially loading

[Joseph Hartman]

Just to update the powers that be about my issue:

Following Gavin's suggestions I tried setting the color depth and got no
change. Then I erased the "splash" and "quiet" and after the verbose startup
messages got a final message that said something about how display could not
be shown at 44100 Hz and it was going down to 44099 Hz. That didn't change
anything though, I still got no log in screen. I did confirm that the thin
clients in question work flawlessly with Feisty though. And in another turn
of good luck (for me) I discovered that Feisty (but still not Gutsy) works
with my donated Fujitsu-Siemens machines that I posted about here last year:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=631658

After writing the above post I was able to calm down and get Gutsy to work
on the Fujitsu-Siemens boxes after putting an AGP card into them, but I only
had about 6 AGP cards and 25 boxes so now I can use the other 19 as servers
too. Too bad I won't get the faster thin client boot with these machines
though. Well I guess I'm in pretty good shape for now and I've read that
some improvements in xserver and monitor recognition or something are coming
with Hardy so hopefully when the time comes I can upgrade all the machines
to Hardy and be done with it. Thanks again for helping -joe

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Joseph Hartman wrote:

> I've got several older IBM desktops and other machines that only
> partially load the edubuntu image when connected as thin clients.
> Basically they do everything right up until the edubuntu splash screen
> where the orange bar goes from left to right. Then I get a little
> blinking cursor at the top left of the screen for a second or two and
> then instead of loading the login screen the cursor just reappears. If I
> remember right these machines loaded the Feisty image just fine, but now
> I'm going with Gutsy and have this problem, anybody got any ideas? Thanks
> again

Have you tried setting

[default]
       X_COLOR_DEPTH=16

in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf?

If that doesn't work, you can edit
/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default and remove the words
"splash" and "quiet" to get more verbose booting messages which might give
us a better clue.

Gavin
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