[K12OSN] Sound on Mac Thick Clients [SOLVED!!!]

[Shawn Powers]

Off the cuff -- you mentioned that you put the X -query stuff in there, 
but did you comment out the line with "prefdm" etc in it?  (You must do 
that I think... we don't want it to start a local X session...)

I'll get the files to you ASAP.

-Shawn

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>>woo hoo!
>>
>>The key was, in Eric's advice the command to put in the inittab was:
>>
>>esd:5:once:/bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001
>>
>>and it needed to be:
>>
>>esd:5:once:/usr/bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001 -public
>>
>>so that others can connect.  No environment variable manipulation 
>>required.  weeee!
>>
>>directly after that is where the X -query command goes.  I'll try to 
>>wiki this today, since it's working well.  Truly amazing.  
>>Thank you to 
>>everyone involved with LTSP, it's amazing how nice these old 
>>5500s are 
>>as thick clients!  They have:
>>
>>800x600 resolution
>>16 bit color
>>integrated *working* speakers
> 
> 
> I finally had time to go back and revisit this problem.  Still doesn't
> work for me.  However I am trying with the iMac Bondi Blue machines as I
> have more of these than 5500's.  Any idea why the same process won't
> seem to work on these?  I have made the change in lts.conf for
> SOUND_DAEMON = "esd" and added the esd:5:once:/usr/bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp
> -port 16001 -public to the /etc/inittab along with the X -query stuff.
> I get sound when running the local YDL but not when running X -query
> from the server.  Could you shoot me a copy of your lts.conf and inittab
> just to be sure I am not doing something stupid?  All of our crappy
> Bondi iMacs have 160MB of RAM in them as well and just fly as thin
> clients, with sound they would be awesome, plus the color is great.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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