Stefan,
I tried long and hard to get the xorg.conf file to work with my monitors to no avail. Debian simply did not have the intelligence to detect various monitor configurations and I finally had to unfortunately give up.
Probably not the answer you want, however I can say that we went a different route and it's worked just fine: we decided to create a custom Ubuntu Live CD image and boot to that via PXE. Ubuntu picks up virtually any monitor settings and audio works great as well over PXE. I created a custom kiosk mode so a user boots up right to a full-screen x2go client, just as the x2go-thinclient package did. The two links I used were
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
and for setting up the kiosk mode, I used this description (made for NX, but just replace the NX settings with the x2go_gtk client and all worked fine). http://blog.nistu.de/A_kiosk_setup_with_nxclient.html
Let me know if you have any questions.
Neil
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:59:55 +0200 From: "Stefan" <lists@nosolution.doesntexist.org> To: x2go-user@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [X2go-user] x2go thinclient - custom xorg.conf Message-ID: <201105240059.56128.lists@nosolution.doesntexist.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Am Montag, 23. Mai 2011 schrieb Stefan:
Hi all,
I installed recently x2go-one and the thinclient-netboot-environment. So far all works fine. (Sound and printing not yet tested).
At the same network we have also a ltsp installation but I think to replace ist step by step with x2go mainly because of spee issues.
One of the main questions I have ist if it's possible to offer custom xorg.conf to the clients which boot via pxe.
Some of our monitors are not correctly recognized by the x-server an need a special xorg.conf.
In the ltsp changeroot there is the possibility to offer something like xorg.conf.00:00:00:00:00 with mac-address as a suffix.
I've confused this: is not in ltsp but in the pxe configuration ;-) In ltsp you define the specifics for each host in the lts.conf but maybe the client mac is still a good starting point.
Stefan
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Hi Neil, hi Stefan,
On Di 24 Mai 2011 14:26:55 CEST Neil Hunt wrote:
I tried long and hard to get the xorg.conf file to work with my monitors to no avail. Debian simply did not have the intelligence to detect various monitor configurations and I finally had to unfortunately give up.
is that Debianb squeeze or still Debian lenny? I played with Debian
squeeze (Skolelinux squeeze) for quite a bit and did not see any
problems about display detection with my hardware at hand (analog VGA,
LCD, Netbook-TFT etc.). However, I only did testing and am not
confronted with a whole range of thin clients consisting of
inhomogenous hardware.
Greets, Mike
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Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2011 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
Hi Neil, hi Stefan,
On Di 24 Mai 2011 14:26:55 CEST Neil Hunt wrote:
I tried long and hard to get the xorg.conf file to work with my monitors to no avail. Debian simply did not have the intelligence to detect various monitor configurations and I finally had to unfortunately give up.
is that Debianb squeeze or still Debian lenny? I played with Debian squeeze (Skolelinux squeeze) for quite a bit and did not see any problems about display detection with my hardware at hand (analog VGA, LCD, Netbook-TFT etc.). However, I only did testing and am not confronted with a whole range of thin clients consisting of inhomogenous hardware.
Greets, Mike
Hi Mike,
for me until now I tried only with lenny. Once I installed squeeze everything in my specific configuration get worse (it's a special radeon-bug in the current squeeze xorg-radeon-driver).
Most of the monitors are detected right but not all.
I'll try with squeeze.
cheers Stefan
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