LTSP woes with Lucid Lynx

[David Groos]

Hi Andrew,

I hesitate to suggest it as your tech knowledge of thin clients is well
beyond mine, 'but just in case...' have you tried using some old P3 or P4 as
a client?  Also, have you tried booting as fat clients?

Good luck!
David

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Andrew <andrew at aammscott.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Jordan,
>
> Yes, I have tried playing with the boot parameters in the manner you
> suggest; unfortunately it has not changed the result.
>
> The 10.04 install on the workstation / server is completely fresh; only
> user files have been imported. I have already tried reinstalling LTSP
> standalone and rebuilding the client, figuring I must have messed up
> somehow.
>
> I am going to try booting the client with the desktop live CD, but for
> me all that will do is confirm the level of broken-ness. Just tried this
> and have confirmed 10.04 will *NOT* load up on the client machine. The
> screen actually goes into 'power-saving mode'; just as though all video
> signal has been lost, even though the machine is still active. This is
> precisely the same as what happens on PXE boot in 10.04 LTSP. 8.04 LTSP
> is fine ...
>
> On a related note, what does everyone make of HP T5125 thin clients? Are
> they known to work with 10.04 [without issues]? Or are there better
> value thin clients out there? How does one actually use the thin clients
> with LTSP?
>
> Thanks! :)
>
>
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