Ubuntu LTSP and Screen Resolution

[Al Gordon]

On 11/16/05, MrKnisely <mrknisely at mrknisely.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
> 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,
> >
> >--
> >
> >  -- AL --
> >
> >
> >
> 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.

Dropping the color depth was one of the first things that I tried...
to no avail.  Thanks, anyhow.

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  -- AL --