Ubuntu LTSP and Screen Resolution

[MrKnisely]

Al Gordon wrote:

>I'm having a difficult time setting the display at anything other than
>640x480 at 60Hz on my Ubuntu 5.10 ltsp environment.  I've played around
>with various settings in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf to no avail.  All
>I've managed to do in there is make the thin clients not work.  It
>should go without saying that the System -> Preferences -> Screen
>Resolution app is no help.  It only displays the one resolution
>(640x480 at 60Hz).
>
>The server for this setup is my desktop PC - a P4 w/ 2GB RAM and an
>nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra.  The clients are 700MHz PIII's w/ 128MB
>RAM and a 16MB Voodoo3 card.
>
>Pointers to resources that actually make sense would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
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>  -- AL --
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>
This sounds a lot like an issue I had.  The fix for me was to not use 
32-bit color depth.  My video card just couldn't do any other resolution 
at that depth.  Once i sent it back to 16-bit I was able to go to much 
higher resolutions.

Hope this helps!

Mike K.