Poor graphic performance and slow boot on Evo T20

[karaluh]

I'm trying to set up Compaq\HP Evo T20 as a thin client for Kubuntu. The problem is it's unusable because of the really bad graphic performance. Especially when compared to some old PIII Compaq Deskpro. This other box also boots significantly faster. And I don't know if it's related, but the resolution is not set properly, it's 800x600 and should be 1280x1024. I cannot even set higher resolution manualy. The other box doesn't have this problem. Both of the clients are connecting to the same Intrepid LTSP server over PXE. The server is a virtual machine (kvm), the host is also Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 15:43:09 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: ltsp-server-standalone (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: ltsp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (firefox:29992): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:30053): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Scott Balneaves (sbalneav)]

Could you please let us know what model you have?

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10865_div/10865_div.HTML

RAM and processor speed are important here.

[karaluh (karaluh)]

I couldn't find my model on the list - it's 238365-001. According to google it's 300 MHz 128MB RAM.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Intrepid is end of support. Marking the bug as Won't fix.

You may want to try LDM_DIRECTX=True in your lts.conf to avoid sending all the X traffic over SSH. This usually boosts performance on slower thin clients at the price of sending X events clear text over the network.