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Channel log from 20 February 2009   (all times are UTC)

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<icefusion11>
morning
04:43
i have a problem with my ltsp, I make it with debian, but after boot, the login screen don't be showed, just a gray scrren with a X of mouse in center
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<berriop>
how can I change the screen resolution of the thin clients?
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<berriop>
i guess it is on the lts.conf file but I dont know d exact parameter
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<shamino>
berriop: you have to add X_MODE_0=<resolution> and CONFIGURE_X=True to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
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<berriop>
shamino: thanks very much
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<jammcq>
Gooood morning #ltsp
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<berriop>
shamino: it doesn't work, idont know why but the thin clients have the wrong resolution
07:44
it is a fresh LTSP install on Ubuntu 8.04, i didnt change anything
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<shamino>
berriop: did you reboot the thin client?
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<berriop>
shamino: yep, I even did a ltsp-update-image
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<berriop>
the lts.conf didtn exist so i created it and added those parameters
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its a bit strange, in one of the clients the resolution is ok, in the other is not, they are using the same hardware and monitor
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<alkisg>
If I have two hard disks on the server and want to increase performance (something like RAID 0), what should I use? LVM?
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<berriop>
I have change the resolution of one of my clients using the lts.cfg and it doesnt work
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the other client, which has the same hw and monitor has the resolution set properly, what is going on??
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<SDuensin>
Greetings at last.
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<shamino>
berriop: did you add [default] tag to the beginning of the lts.conf file?
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<ogra>
jammcq, do you know whats up with scottie ? he didnt show up for a while
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<jammcq>
ogra: no worries about scotty. I chatted with him this morning
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<ogra>
ah, good
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<jammcq>
he's got someone in his office going live with some accounting project. it's got him real busy
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<ogra>
yeah, i suspected its work related
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<jammcq>
ogra: hey, I see the next UDS is May 25-29. that means it won't interfere with FISL on June 24, so you can come
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<ogra>
yeah, i might :)
11:42* jammcq needs to get that going soon
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<ogra>
depends how demanding that karmic koala is :)
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<LaserJock>
ogra: put in a lot of work now and karmic will reward you ;-)
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<ogra>
well, i still have a lot of work to do to make 30M 133MHz ARM crap work :P
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with jaunty
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<jammcq>
hey LaserJock
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did you see my comments about sbalneav?
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<LaserJock>
jammcq: yep
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<jammcq>
he said he'd be around this afternoon
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<LaserJock>
jammcq: I just wanted to make sure he was doing OK
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<jammcq>
it's lunch time here, so I'll see ya'll in a little while
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<jammcq>
yeah, scotty disappears for weeks sometimes, but he always comes back
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<jcastro>
I was starting to believe that scotty had become a mythical creature
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<cliebow>
Scotty IS a mythical creatue
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creature
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<staffencasa>
can someone help me with using cron and the --kiosk plugin
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It doesn't seem to run
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<Gadi>
staffencasa: you installed it in the chroot?
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<Lns>
hey all
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ogra: ping?
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<staffencasa>
Gadi, yeah
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<Lns>
Anyone wanna talk to me about the command LDM uses to shutdown? I'm having issues with WakeOnLan after using this command (vs. 'halt' from the chroot shell)
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<Gadi>
staffencasa: according to my friend Lns, you have to unlock the root user in the chroot for cron jobs to run
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you might want to give that a try: chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 passwd -u root
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(and reroll the image)
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<Lns>
Gadi: i told you not to quote me on that.. =p
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<Gadi>
hehe
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:)
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<staffencasa>
I'll give that a shot, thanks
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<Gadi>
staffencasa: and by Lns I mean my Longterm Nice Social friend
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who is in no way related to the Lns that appears here
13:06* Lns blushes... aww shucks
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<Gadi>
:)
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whew
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<Lns>
gg
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<Gadi>
Lns: wrt shutdown command, according to ogra, what we have in upstream is wrong
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and he does not know where it came from
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but, I dont either
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so, I am loathe to change unless it fixes a bug
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which it sounds like there is
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:)
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<Lns>
wrt?
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<Gadi>
with respect to
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<Lns>
ah
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<Gadi>
sorry - Im younger than I feel
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:)
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<Lns>
lol
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so, what *is* the cmd ldm uses to shut down?
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<Gadi>
currently: poeroff -p
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<Lns>
ah
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<Gadi>
*poweroff -p
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which should be (according to ogra)
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poweroff -fp
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which makes more sense to me
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dunno where we lost the "f"
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<Lns>
it does to me, but it seems to disable (at least on some systems) wol support
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even with my spicy "wolfix" script that calls "ethtool -s eth0 wol g"
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which turns wol "magic packet" support on after it boots
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<laga>
hum
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back in the day, you had to edit this init script on ubuntu..
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<Lns>
again, just on some systems i've run into though..so it seems it could be h/w specific
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<Gadi>
some hardware will power down the NICs when the system is halted
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ie complete power down
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<Lns>
laga: the runlevel 0 init ?
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<Gadi>
to draw practically no power
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<Lns>
Gadi: yes, but when i use /sbin/halt, it works
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<Gadi>
for wol to work, there has to be at least power to the NICs
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ah, so you would be a candidate for: poweroff -fp
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:)
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too bad its compiled in the greeter
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:P
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<Lns>
maybe? I'm sorta confused as to the differences
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Gadi: yeah, i saw that..i wish it was more configurable
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<Gadi>
-fp says : run halt, damnit!
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<Lns>
would be nice to customize those entries too to add/remove some
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Gadi: ah
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<Gadi>
-p says: run shutdown in a halt kind of way
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<Lns>
so technically, what are the diffs ?? are these all atx specific call differences?
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seems that some turn off "more" than others
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nm, you already said =p
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<Lns>
just weird how other systems behave differently when using the same methods
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<Gadi>
from man shutdown: -h Requests that the system be either halted or powered off after it has been brought down, with the choice as
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to which left up to the system.
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<Lns>
even the same models, just slightly different versions
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<Gadi>
ie, there is a difference between halt and poweroff
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<Lns>
yeah..i remember reading that on sparc workstations 'halt' (iirc) will bring it back to openfirmware boot menu or some such
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<alkisg>
"-p Instructs the halt command to instead behave as poweroff." => then why doesn't one just use the poweroff command???
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<Lns>
alkisg: that'd be too easy =p
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<alkisg>
Heh, lol :)
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<cliebow>
weee!
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<Lns>
cliebow: please step away from the laughing gas
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<laga>
Lns: i was talking about /etc/init.d/halt and modify NETDOWN
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<Gadi>
Lns: if you dont want to change the code, you could make /opt/ltsp/i386/sbin/poweroff a symlink to your own script
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<alkisg>
Hrm... I don't get it... other SDL apps run fine in TCs (e.g. supertux2 => about 15 fps) and other, similar ones, really slow (e.g. secret mario chronicles, smc => about 0.1 fps)
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<Gadi>
alkisg: have you been following this xcb bug
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?
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<alkisg>
Gadi, I've seen about it, but I don't know what xcb is :)
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Do you think it also affects SDL?
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<Gadi>
it is something that is supposed to boost performance of X, but winds up crippling performance of remote X
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dunno if it is related
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so far, it seems to improve such things as: java apps, right-click context menus in firefox, other
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*others
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improve meaning improve is you remove xcb
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:)
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<alkisg>
And to try the workaround I just have to overwrite some .so with the gutsy version? Or completely remove a .so?
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<Gadi>
well, I did it differently
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I apt-get'd the source for libx11-6
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changed the configure flags and such
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and rebuilt a deb with libs that dont depend on xcb
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so far, I definitely see some improvements
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<alkisg>
Ah! That sounds better! :)
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<Gadi>
I added: --with-xcb=no
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to the configure flags
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<alkisg>
Gadi: what's your .deb for? Intrepid? :)
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<Gadi>
yeah
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i386
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<Lns>
Gadi: that's what I was thinking too (symlink)
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<Gadi>
not 64 bit
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<alkisg>
Yeah!!! :) Could you please pretty please upload it somewhere? :)
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<Gadi>
do you want me to post it someplace?
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heh
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sure
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<alkisg>
It would save me from learning how to build a .deb... :P
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<Gadi>
the update manager will try to replace it when you install it
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so, as long as you don't apt-get upgrade
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it will be there
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one sec, I'll post it someplace
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<Lns>
woo, testers!
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<alkisg>
Fine, just trying to see if this is my problem
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<Lns>
laga: i'll look into NETDOWN that might be my issue
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<Gadi>
ftp://symbio-technologies.com/libx11-6_1.1.5-2ltsp1.1_i386.deb
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there ya go
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let me know if it fixes things or offers any problems
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<alkisg>
Thanks!! I sure will.
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<Lns>
What's up with the xcb people not responding to stuff like what we're experiencing
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<Gadi>
at some point, I want to try the firefox patch to cache resized pixmaps instead of original size
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anyone already try that ?
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<alkisg>
Gadi, erm, this should go into the chroot, right?
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<Gadi>
no
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on the server
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its an Xclient library
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<alkisg>
Darn... I still don't get the X staff
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Ah, client, ok
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<Gadi>
in other words, apps that can use xcb function calls will use them if they are present
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this makes them not present
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so they need to use standard x11 calls
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the way I see it, if devs keep developing this way, remote X11 is pretty much dead
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and we'll have to do everything by proxy
13:40* Lns is NOT happy about that
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<alkisg>
That would be silly, X was network-aware from the start
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network-transparent (more correctly)
13:40* Gadi agrees
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<Gadi>
of course, back then there were fewer images being sloshed around
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<Lns>
We need to get a formal group together for LTSP to counter this trend
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<Gadi>
:)
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<Lns>
Gadi: is XCB contributing to this mostly?
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<Gadi>
not the image thing
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from what I can gather, xcb just has a bug in it
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where it does too much "checking" of the xserver memory
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which, locally, has no ill effect
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but, remotely, causes a lot of traffic and latency when waiting for an answer
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in other words, say the app wants to do something
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it goes:
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ok xserver, how much memory can I use
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start action
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wait, is this memory address available?
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ok, continue
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wait, so you're saying Im good if I write to this memory address?
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<Lns>
wow
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<Gadi>
ok, continue
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:)
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<Lns>
too chatty
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<Gadi>
thats my read on it
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exactly
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x11 by itself is very chatty
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and it sounds like xcb just chats it up some more
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<Lns>
heh
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<Gadi>
thats really NX's big win
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<Lns>
would there be any benefit for an x11-ltsp type extension/modification to the normal proto that would reduce this stuff as much as possible?
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<Gadi>
its not so much in the compression
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its in keeping the chatting to a minimum
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<Lns>
hmm
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<Gadi>
well, I'm no X guru, but it seems to me that if you have a protocol that is both chatty and network transparent,
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you might want to give some flexibility to tradeoff
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very chatty on laptop, good
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not so chatty on thin client good
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other way around, not good
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<Lns>
XSERVER_ISLOCAL = ?
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<Gadi>
well, X already knows where the Xserver is
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echo $DISPLAY
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<Lns>
but to specifically modify the 'chattiness'
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<Gadi>
well, there should definitely be a dial for the chattiness
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<Lns>
yeah
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that's what i was going for
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<Lns>
what would have to be sacrificed for less chattiness? Can we learn from nx?
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w/o proxy style modifications that is
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<Gadi>
nothing wrong with a proxy
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as long as it is designed for what you want to achieve
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<Lns>
chroot integration?
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<Gadi>
I meant more like accelerated video
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<Lns>
oh
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<Gadi>
ssh has a proxy
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but it sucks
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because it is not really designed for accelerated video over LAN
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it is more of an afterthought
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<Lns>
right
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<Gadi>
to tunnel Xclients
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13:52* Lns uses that for his clients
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<Lns>
w/vnc
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<Gadi>
right
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<Gadi>
Lns: you should look into turbovnc
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I really like its performance
13:53* Lns googles
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<Gadi>
www.virtualgl.org
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<alkisg>
Hey, it fixed the ssh -Y localhost firefox right click delay! :)
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<Gadi>
:)
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yeah
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<alkisg>
trying remotely...
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<Gadi>
brb
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<Lns>
damn you xcb!!
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lol
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<alkisg>
Dah, no, remotely the delay is still big.
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I don't get it. I did `ssh -Y server` and right click was slow. Then I did `ssh -Y client` _from_ the server with the modified xcb, and right click was fast!!!
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(client = a standalone pc, non ltsp related)
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<Lns>
Gadi: wow, virtualgl looks nice!! I'm assuming ltsp could use that
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<Gadi>
Lns: well, the virtualgl part, for sure
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the turbovnc, not as much
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<Lns>
right
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<Gadi>
but turbovnc is quite good in its own right
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<Lns>
"They appear to the application as a normal X server, but they perform X11 rendering to a virtual framebuffer in main memory rather than to a real framebuffer on a graphics card. This allows the X proxy to send only images to the client machine rather than chatty X-Windows rendering commands." --- sending images < x-windows rendering commands?
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is that 3d specific?
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<Gadi>
are you reading the virtualgl or the turbovnc?
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<Lns>
virtualgl
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<Gadi>
basically what it does is this:
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takes the 3D rendering part and sends it to a running Xserver on the *server-side*
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so, pop your most powerful graphics card in the server
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then, what it gets back are 2D frames
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which it merges in with the 2D frames sent to the client
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so, the client gets all 2D info
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but the 3D stuff is rendered by the server (or farm of graphics servers)
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:)
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its neat
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its an answer to not using the graphics power of the desktop, but that of the server
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<Lns>
so sending 2d "frames" = 2d "images" ? or x11 commands to draw 2d images?
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<Gadi>
the latter, I believe
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<Lns>
ah ok
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<Gadi>
tho, not 100% sure
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<Lns>
i guess that would only apply to window frames & friends
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<Gadi>
basically, if you had no GL support on the desktop, it would still work
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its mainly for accelerating video
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as in movies
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or weather models
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:)
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<Lns>
that's awesome
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<alkisg>
Secret Mario Chronicles and supertuxkart went from 0.1 fps to 4 fps, impressive speedup! But in glxgears, even though it reports the double fps, the gears stay still...
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<Gadi>
alkisg: so what does that mean?
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are the games playable?
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<alkisg>
Erm, almost playable, it would be better with > 10 fps
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But it's a great speedup... let's see the other apps (I was making a list with apps that play well and others that don't)
14:19
<Gadi>
http://www.freelists.org/post/uae/SDL-speedup
14:19
alkisg: ^^ interesting
14:20
<alkisg>
Ahm, this needs compiling... a summer task :)
14:23
Video playback with totem has a little lag now...
14:30
<Lns>
alkisg: your'e talking about emulated snes games?
14:30
<alkisg>
Lns, no, mostly SDL games
14:31
<Lns>
alkisg: you konw about the --nosound and --window[ed] switches for a lot of the tux games right?
14:31
<alkisg>
10 of the ones I tried showed no improvement, but the ones that were really slow (<1fps) improved a lot (=4-5 fps)
14:32
Lns, no, but right now I'm trying with plain ssh -Y, so no sound :)
14:33
tuxpaint runs fine with plain ssh -Y, even without the modified xcb lib
14:37
<Lns>
alkisg: use --nosound if you're not getting sound anyway. That switch alone greatly improved sdl app performance
14:38
alkisg: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tuxmath/+bug/269082 for reference
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<Gadi>
it really is amazing how simple operations cause tens of megabytes of x11 traffic to go ver the wire
14:46
<Lns>
Gadi: in your opinion, do you think X11 will still be a viable as a network-transparent GUI framework in the next 10 years?
14:46
<Gadi>
thats really up to upstream Xorg
14:46
<johnny>
Lns, i think so
14:46
<Gadi>
and how much they value the network transparency
14:46
<johnny>
i think it will be streamlined
14:46
more work done on the client
14:47
as far as display is concerned
14:47
<Gadi>
johnny: unfortunately, what app devs are doing is they see greater efficiencies to let the Xserver do the processing
14:47
<johnny>
Lns, perhaps not viable on old stuff :)
14:47
isn't that up to the toolkit?
14:47
more than the app?
14:48
<Gadi>
depends, I suppose
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<Lns>
What can we do to keep in constant contact w/Xorg upstream with our work, to keep them on the ball in regards to improving network transparency in X?
14:50
<johnny>
talk to them?
14:50
<Lns>
and not let them disregard it as "old school mainframe" tech
14:51
<johnny>
Lns, go meet a dev
14:51
Lns, generally greater efficiencies are just around the corner..
14:51
it's like hal/pulseaudio all this new stuff
14:51
still evolving
14:52
sad but true.. sometimes things get stuck not working for awhile
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<Lns>
johnny: so they're actually improving network xparency and not just leaving it as is
14:52
and improving local xserver/client stuff
14:53
<johnny>
i'm hoping to see less data transfered
14:53
overall
14:53
<Lns>
yeah
14:53
<johnny>
which should help everybody
14:53
Lns, are you famliar with all this new gem and kms stuff?
14:53
<Lns>
johnny: nope, not at all
14:54
<johnny>
it sounds like you should be
14:54
otherwise you're not going to be able to get the help you need
14:55
Lns, there was a good lost half decade
14:55
at the very least..
14:55
it's only in the very recent past that we're starting to recover from xfree86
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14:59* Lns wishes Apple would share some of their great toys with the world, since they built upon toys that were around before they were
15:12
<Lns>
i still can't rename my own wikipages on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP :( that shutdown typo is bugging the crap out of me
15:19
<yotux>
I am getting and error on my thin client: File transfer error: Image file too large for low memory.
15:19
can anyone offer some assistance on this one
15:19
<Gadi>
yotux: sounds like you are trying to feed an etherboot image to a PXE client
15:20
have you been changin your dhcpd.conf?
15:20
*changing
15:21
<yotux>
Gadi: no stock install of ubuntu
15:22
<Gadi>
what is the name of the file it attempts to download?
15:23
<yotux>
I don't get the name of the fie
15:25
Gadi: http://pastebin.com/d4bcfc759 this is what my thin client displays
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<Lns>
yotux: just curious, how much mem does your TC have?
15:26
(to eliminate the obvious error)
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<Lns>
639k lowmem? ;)
15:27
<yotux>
320MB ram
15:28
I'm using an old IBM Netvista with a 3com network card
15:29
I used LTSP back when Ubutnu was 6.04 if I recall correctly
15:30
<Gadi>
I think the netvistas have their own sets of issues
15:30
maybe cliebow knows?
15:30
hmm... not here atm
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<Lns>
!seen cliebow
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<ltspbot>
Lns: cliebow was last seen in #ltsp 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 21 seconds ago: <cliebow> weee!
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<Lns>
lol
15:31
too much laughing gas
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<johnny>
yum is so lame
16:01
it breaks all the time..
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or packagekit breaks it..
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get thread died in berkeleydb library at least once every week
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and you can't even ctrl+c it
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you have to go kill -9 it elswhere
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<Lns>
gross
16:08* Lns has never had luck with RPM-based pkg mgmt, even newer ones
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21:43
<nothingman>
has anyone here used a vm as a pxe client without a server running as a guest vm?
21:45
in other words, to a pxe server running on the host?
21:45
<Ryan52>
yes.
21:45
which distro?
21:45
<nothingman>
Ubuntu
21:46
<Ryan52>
hmm. I dunno then.
21:47
<nothingman>
which vm software have you used?
21:47
I have Virtualbox and qemu
21:47
<Ryan52>
kvm (which is basically qemu)
21:47
<nothingman>
every howto I find is either really vague or gets about halfway through before telling me I need to run the server in another vm
21:47
yeah
21:47
that I have
21:48
<Ryan52>
Fedora's ltsp comes with a script to run a thin client vm.
21:48
tho it's easier on Fedora because all the daemons are already listening on a bridge. not sure how that would work with normal networking..
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<nothingman>
Ryan52: I get "No valid PXE ROM found for network device."
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<Ryan52>
not enough information provided, and I'm not good with the qemu stuff.
22:00* Ryan52 still has nightmares :P
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22:05
<johnny>
nothingman, sure.. that's fine
22:05
it works
22:05
as long as you setup briding
22:05
bridging*
22:06
ltsp app stuff on host.. client in virtualbox..
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22:06
<johnny>
worked fine
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<CrazyPotato>
Hello.
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<alkisg>
So, about the sdl-sound performance problems in ltsp clients, if I installed libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio instead of libsdl1.2debian-alsa, I might get better performance?
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