[FreeNX-kNX] screen resolution and colour depth

[Alastair Johnson]

On Thursday 12 November 2009, olaf wrote:
> Hi Jeremy !
> 
> Thank you for explain.
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 05:11:13 schrieb Jeremy Wilkins:
> > It may not be the hardware directly, but the firmware may not be offering
> > the mode or may not be defaulting to the right mode.   You may have to
> > change the mode on the thinclient if the firmware even detects its
> > availablility.
> 
> "Firmware" = bios ?
> I'm booting a thinstation+nxclient image over pxe, so I don't know a
>  firmware to change.

Firmware = thinstation image you are booting in this case. It sounds like 
you're using a premade image, not one you configured yourself, so it will be 
using default or autodetected settings for many things. I assume thinstation 
has documentation for how to override these if necessary. PXES, a similar thin 
client, could do this with a config file on a server, or with options on the 
server in pxelinux.cfg passed at boot time. You could also hardcode them if 
you built a custom image for your hardware.

> Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 05:11:13 schrieb Jeremy Wilkins:
> > The client defines the resolution and colour
> >  depth of the connection.  With NX the rendering happens at the client's
> >  machine (thinclient)
> 
> How does the thinclient defines these settings? Does he get always the
> "highest" resolution/colours, or have I change this manually anywhere?

Check the thinstation documentation.

> The video graphic card of my (test-)thinClients have 8MB.
> Should this be enough to work with kde-sessions, firefox, openoffice .. ?
> Scrolling is awful, menu-items in openoffice and others are slow too.

That'll depend on resolution and colour depth, but it's lower than I've seen 
in a long time. What's the full specification of the client?