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Keyboard, Multimedia, Miscellaneous

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One possible solution is to install the "winbind" package from the Debian repositories using Synaptic or Aptitude and configure for the specific environment. After installed, edit from a command line /etc/ nsswitch.conf and add the word wins to the end of the hosts: line. ISSUE Attempts to ping the client result in message "unknown host" error. SOLUTION Ensure the host name is correct and includes a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the applicable domain where the thin client is located. You may also need to add the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Modify /etc/dhclient.conf and enter the option send host-name [FQDN]. Keyboard ISSUE The local keyboard settings do not match the actual characters on my keyboard. SOLUTION The characters used in the keyboard mappings are defined by the xserver provided by the Debian repository and can be modified either by changing the source files in /etc/X11/xkb or by running the xmodmap command from the users ~/.xsession script. This latter method is used by the hptc-keyboards package available in the HP repository to customize the international keyboard provided by HP. Multimedia ISSUE Attempting to play video with the default install of the mplayer package from www.debian-multimedia.org will cause this message to appear: "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device." SOLUTION Open the Preferences dialog, select the Video tab, and select a different driver. The xv or x11 drivers seem to provide the best performance. Miscellaneous ISSUE System intermittently hangs. SOLUTION Check available flash space with the command df -h from an xterm or console. You may need to delete unnecessary files. One possible alternative is to install localepurge from the Debian repository or delete documentation files by running the /usr/share/hp/cleandocs script from an xterm console. ENWW Keyboard 79

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One possible solution is to install the “winbind” package from the Debian repositories using Synaptic or
Aptitude and configure for the specific environment. After installed, edit from a command line
/etc/
nsswitch.conf
and add the word
wins
to the end of the
hosts:
line.
ISSUE
Attempts to ping the client result in message “unknown host” error.
SOLUTION
Ensure the host name is correct and includes a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the applicable
domain where the thin client is located. You may also need to add the FQDN in
/etc/hosts
.
Modify
/etc/dhclient.conf
and enter the option
send host-name [
FQDN
]
.
Keyboard
ISSUE
The local keyboard settings do not match the actual characters on my keyboard.
SOLUTION
The characters used in the keyboard mappings are defined by the xserver provided by the Debian
repository and can be modified either by changing the source files in
/etc/X11/xkb
or by running the
xmodmap command from the users
~/.xsession
script. This latter method is used by the hptc-keyboards
package available in the HP repository to customize the international keyboard provided by HP.
Multimedia
ISSUE
Attempting to play video with the default install of the mplayer package from
www.debian-multimedia.org
will cause this message to appear: "Error opening/initializing the selected
video_out (-vo) device."
SOLUTION
Open the
Preferences
dialog, select the
Video
tab, and select a different driver. The xv or x11 drivers
seem to provide the best performance.
Miscellaneous
ISSUE
System intermittently hangs.
SOLUTION
Check available flash space with the command
df –h
from an xterm or console. You may need to delete
unnecessary files. One possible alternative is to install localepurge from the Debian repository or delete
documentation files by running the
/usr/share/hp/cleandocs
script from an xterm console.
ENWW
Keyboard
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