New PXES user with a couple questions
Josh Harding <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.pxes.devel |
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| Organization | Motorola |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I run a small lab with some aging NCD Xterms. I've recently been given some old Dell Latitudes to work with. After a bit of searching, I found the PXES project and it looks like the perfect solution. I installed PXES and was able to get a working Thin Client without much trouble. Thanks to Diego for such a useful product! There are a few questions I have that I can't find answers to in any FAQs or docs. Maybe some list members can help out... I'll start with the easy question: PXES has a fish logo, is it supposed to be pronounced "Pisces"? Issue #1: When I boot a machine, it takes about 7 or 8 minutes to load the image. Is this just me? I've tried both a stock build and a custom config and get approximately the same result. The client is a P3@650 with 192MB RAM. The server's not slow either and they're on 100Mbps switched network. Once booted, I can XDMCP into a Solaris Gnome session and have incredibly fast graphics response when dragging/scrolling (faster than most Windows PCs get on their console) so I know it's not a network issue. Issue #2: The only other issue I have is that I can't figure out how to get back to the PXES desktop after finishing an XDM session. If I use windowed mode, I can't close the window and if I go full screen, I can't exit (from the Solaris login prompt, I've tried the "Return to Local Session" or whatever it's called). I wouldn't mind so much that I have to reboot to connect to a different XDM server, but it takes me 8 minutes to reboot (see issue #1). If someone can point me at some docs or tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it. Either one of these alone isn't a show stopper, but the two of them together are. So a fix or workaround for either problem would get me up and running. Thanks for any help! The Amigo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND