Update on my weekend: Currently, sound is working with flash 9 using the pulseaudio fix as suggested by Peter Sheie. Neither Gideon's package nor Eric's rpm worked (the rpm failed to install with "rtld is needed by libflashsupport". However, I did have to manually download the Makefile and the c-source code since svn doesn't work, even after setting the proxy information for svn. I also changed FLASH to REMOTE per another message the cron job for ltsp_esd_hack and enabled the option in /etc/sysconfig/k12ltsp. As for mplayer, enabling the at-stable repositories (from earlier list messages), fails with a header incomplete, no more mirrors to try message. ..... Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for mplayer to pack into transaction set. mplayer-1.0-58_r21812.fc5 100% |=========================| 10 MB 02:17 <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable/mplayer-1.0-58_r21812.fc5.at.i386.rpm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable/mplayer-1.0-58_r21812.fc5.at.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno -1] Header is not complete. Trying other mirror. Error: failure: mplayer-1.0-58_r21812.fc5.at <div id="mb_14">.i386.rpm from at-stable: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. And, as mentioned trying to use svn as suggested for getting the source doesn't work. aaarrgghhh!!!! :) I am sitting behind a state proxy so it might be affecting this, although yum works once the proxy info is set. I did add the correct entries in the servers file for svn (in the global section) to tell svn to use a proxy. Maybe it is somehow related to mirrors possibly not honoring proxies? So, I browsed to the above UK site and manually downloaded the rpms. Then, trying to install mplayer fails wonderfully with many missing dependencies. Not sure how long it is going to take to resolve all of them at this point. Hmmm ....I also tried livna just to see what was available and can get the pre8 versions, but ... not sure about them (and still doesn't solve the recommendation to build mplayer from src). Maybe I will just come in tonight and start downloading all the rpm dependencies, but no guarantee I can get them installed in the right order? But .. closer to a solution. Sincerely, Dave Hopkins</div> <div>On 1/20/07, David Trask <<a href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"Support list for open source software in schools." <<a href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com"> k12osn@redhat.com</a>> on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 12:58 PM +0000 wrote: >alsa Did you try this? Works fine for me with K12LTSP 5 <a href="http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#esd_ALSA_sound_on_LTSP_4_2"> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#esd_ALSA_sound_on_LTSP_4_2</a> just install it....been using it all year. Gideon Romm wrote it at the beginning of this school year for the same purpose you are going through. David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School <a href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org</a> (207)923-3100 </blockquote></div>