All,<br><br>It appears that sound works for some and not for others. Unfortunately, I appear to be firmly in the 'not for others' camp most days. Now, this issue has come to a head here at NCS. I have been told to either get sound working by February 16th (flash, movies in various formats like real player, media player,etc) or else NCS will find a different approach. In other words, a MS-based solution. What is pushing this is that teachers have decided (and management has agreed) that the school should be using UnitedStreaming and a contract has been signed. Now, I have to have sound.
<br><br>So, I have a couple of weekends to try and get this fixed. I am at FC5. I can upgrade to FC6 is absolutely necessary, but even then there are issues with the installer recognizing my RAID card (2010s).<br><br>Currently, I have sound with the edutainment apps. It can be a little laggy at times, but ... it works. I am re-installing mplayer, hoping that doing so will get the movies working (using info from the list and the wiki). And that leaves flash and shockwave. Shockwave is a non-starter (well, maybe with wine, but ... purchasing codeweavers might work, but is cost-prohibitive since doing so gets into the same price range as an MS-based solution). As recent email to the list suggests, flash 9 is also having problems. So ... if anyone has success stories and are willing to take the time to add them to the wiki, I suspect alot of others on the list (besides just me) would find it very useful.
<br><br>Next, my version of LTSP still has the 'only works for first user' issue. An upgrade is in order. Is there a simple way to upgrade just LTSP without breaking the customizations which K12LTSP uses (and which make life alot simpler in many respects)?
<br><br>Finally, pulseaudio, asla, esd, nasd, gstreamer etc have been mentioned as possible solutions to the 'sound issue', but currently it appears that there isn't a firm solution. I have been trying to get a solid solution for literally a few years now. I have had sound working at varous times, but then it would lag so severely in videos as to be useless. Powers-that-be want (demand) a solution by February 16th. Since I can't work on the systems during the day, I have weekends and some evenings. I am willing to try any suggestions this weekend. I am not a Linux guru, but am also not completely new to this.
<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Dave Hopkins<br>NCS parent volunteer <br>