[Lancaster] Lancaster LUG

[Ken Hough]

Max,

Just seen your comments about getting sound cards on remote X terminals 
to work. I've been wondering about this on my own trial settup. It's 
disconserting to log in at one PC and get the intro music coming from 
the next room.

Have been on to the lstp site. First impressions are that a lot of ice 
packs and coffee would be needed to really get into lstp. They refer to 
recompiling kernels, but are back at v2.2.x, whereas recent distros are 
now on v2.6.4 or at least around v2.4.20. I guess that "difficult (but 
not impossible)" might be about right.

My feeling is that whatever setup we go for, it should be easily 
understandable and maintainable. Bearing in mind also network bandwidth 
and that none of the machines are very powerfull, stand alone multimedia 
machine(s) would seem to be the most practical option.

I've not looked at the server at the Folly, so can't comment on it. Hope 
that we can get an agreed way forward sorted out next Wednesday evening.

Ken Hough


max wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 10:54 am, Ken Hough wrote:
> 
>>I think that as well as the X terminals performing bog standard 'office'
>>apps and the like, we should be able to show more interesting aspects
>>such as multimedia and even possibly a few games. The latter two would
>>require a reasonably powerfull PC with 256MB or more of RAM. We need to
>>demonstrate a good (trendy and fun) image for Linux.
> 
> it's difficult (but not impossible) to get x-terminals to use their own sound 
> cards (thus usable for sound and video (!) editing - and with video editing 
> of course there's the issue of bandwidth - if the server has a 100meg 
> connection to the hub then it should be ok-ish). The easiest way of doing it 
> is to use an ltsp type setup, and use the package they've put together to 
> enable this kind of thing. i think there's a howto on their site 
> http://ltsp.org
> 
> also have you checked the routing to the internet? there have been times that 
> the x-terminal-server couldn't reach the www (port 80), even though it could 
> ping the internet quite happily. is this sorted?
> 
> and is memory still an issue on the server? only had 128mb last time i looked, 
> not enough to run more than one lot of kde...
> 
> three cheers to ken and andy and any others who've been sorting the machines!
> 
> max
> 
>