[K12OSN] GLX Not Working?

[Petre Scheie]

I don't have any experience with those particular apps, but it sounds like you may be 
having network bandwidth/contention issues.  I'm guessing that you don't have as many of 
the computers at home as you have in the club.  Are you using a gigabit network 
connection between the server and the clients?  That is, a 100Mb card in the server and 
in each of the clients, all connected via a 100Mb switch, is adequate for up to six 
clients when graphically intensive apps (such as you are using) are involved; and 
depending on exactly what you're doing, perhaps fewer than that.  Above that, put a 
gigabit card in the server, and get a switch with a bunch of 100Mb ports and one or two 
gigabit ports.  For each client, 100Mb is sufficient, but the server needs to be 
gigabit.  You could also be cheap and buy a 5-port Gbit switch, plug the server into it, 
and then daisy chain some 100Mb switches into it, and plug the clients into those 100Mb 
switches; it's a bit clumsy, but may be a cheap way to test to see if it solves the problem.

Petre

Steven Perks wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a system of computers at my school. We also have a computer club 
> and I have the same computers as in the computer club at home. The 
> problem is the ones at school (computer club) do not work. But the ones 
> at home do work.
> 
> And by work I mean the following programs do not work properly on Terminals
> 
> Blender
> Starcraft
> Odd time Firefox will die when visiting websites
> Most other games that use extensive graphics.
> 
> But GLXGears does work, and the gears spin.
> 
> When we start blender we get a error than it logs us out and we have to 
> restart terminals in order to log back in.
> 
> Also driftnet does not work, shows a black screen
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> - Steve
> 
> 
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