rdesktop, remote sound, F8, and lockup

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:31 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
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> On 12/16/2007 09:17 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:00 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
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> >> When my remote XP computer makes sound, it comes through on remote
> >> desktop, but then the remote session is unresponsive until I close it
> >> and reconnect.  Any ideas?
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> >> The command line is
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> >>    rdesktop -u mylogon at mydomain -r sound:local -r
> >> printer:PSC_2200_Draft="hp psc 2400 series" -g 1024x768 -b
> >> myremotecomputer.mydomain
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> > heck, I didn't think sound worked particularly well for windows to
> > windows RDP sessions so consider me shocked that it worked with the
> > Linux RDP client.
> > 
> > You don't give much details (i.e. which fedora, which sound daemon you
> > are using) so it would take a crystal ball to give you much in terms of
> > useful info, but then again, I've never tried to use sound via Linux RDP
> > so I wouldn't be much help.
> > 
> > Did you enable 'network sound' ? (esd or via kcontrol?)
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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> Network sound is working, as is esd and pulse audio.  Sound worked well
> with F7, but has be troublesome on F8. I just put the stuff back in the
> command today because I had some time to test it.  (On F7, I used "aoss
> rdesktop..." to make it work.)
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I think that there's been some issues with the switch over to pulseaudio
but I suspect that there's confidence that all of the rough edges will
be smoothed over in time.

Maybe someone else has an idea.

Craig