<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I have run a Linux only lab now for for the entire school year so far. 1 server K12LTSP 4.1 and 30+ workstations. (some teachers connect to server using Windoze via Samba but they don’t count)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Kindergarten to Grade 12 with the elementary students using the educational games that came with K12LTSP as well as web sites and ktouch<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Junior and High School students using StarOffice Applications, web sites, ktouch and various programming languages. Java via NetBeans, Python, etc<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Most everything worked great.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I wish I had better bandwidth, but that might be solved if and when I can convince the powers that be to spring for the switches necessary for a gig backbone to a gig router/switch that all other switches would be attached to, including the two lines from the server<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> What I would really love is to get the sound working on the workstations. 25 out of the 30+ workstations are identical IBM 300PLs with onboard lans, onboard video, and onboard sound. When I loaded up one of these machines with Windows 98, it auto-detected sound and functioned without speakers or headphones. These workstations have audio jacks and volume controls out the front. Crank it up and the audio plays through the system speaker<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> But no matter what I try, and I have tried, I cannot get sound working. It must have something to do with the soundcard itself <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Crystal</st1:place></st1:City> 3248? I think. The sound card on the server works fine, but that’s useless as it is not used as a workstation.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The elementary teachers have been really good about a complete switch to Linux, not that they had a choice. I teach all the computer classes Grade 7 and up and have not really felt the need for sound but the elementary teachers only real complaint is the lack of sound on the educational games and websites.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I would like to give it to them<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> It seems to me that other distros of Linux seem to handle sound better than Fedora. I plan to try putting a harddrive into one of the workstations and then load a regular distro of say Mandrake or Suse to see if they can detect and use the sound card. If it can I would assume that loading the terminal server with that distro and then LTSP on top then the workstations would have sound. I don’t really want to do that as the K12LTSP that I have been using is brain dead easy to install and configure. Literally follow the bouncing ball and then accept defaults for almost everything. Then tweek later.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I really like that. I really really want Fedora to start supporting that workstation and its sound card<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Advice. Opinions. Ideas. Welcome and thank you<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>