Local devices vs. Gutsy

[Richard Doyle]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:02 +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Richard Doyle wrote:
> 
> > Everything, including usb drives, is working well now, 
> 
> As someone who hasn't yet put gutsy into production, this is most
> reassuring.  So you just had to fix the thin clients color depth in
> lts.conf and fix the USB keys as in this thread?  Anything else?
Not much more. This was an upgrade from a working Feisty system. Sabayon
didn't upgrade well (it couldn't read the student.zip file, and then
wouldn't apply menu changes made with alacarte) and has been removed. I
switched from VIA's UniChrome driver to the community driver, which
supports 24 bit color on the HP t5125 clients.

Here's our new lts.conf:
[default]
  LTSP_VERSION=5.0.39
  X_COLOR_DEPTH=24
  X_VIDEORAM=16384
  X_RAMPERC=85
 

> 
> > although a couple of clients have frozen while using Firefox. 
> 
> Possibly the memory usage issue we've seen before?  If it becomes a big
> problem, we do have a patch against firefox v3 which seems to fix this,
> though you have to use firefox v3 to do it which could cause other issues
> so perhaps you're better off as you are.
Eagerly awaiting Firefox 3!

> 
> Gavin
> 
>