[K12OSN] G3's up and running!

[Eric Harrison]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>Eric, do I have to install esd on the server first or is it already
>there?  

You should not need to install esd on the server. You can verify
that you have it installed with:

	rpm -q esound

>I am running 3.1.2 on the test box.  Also the default lts.conf
>was set to 
>SOUND_DAEMON      = nasd
>Without the quotes.  Does 3.1.2 need the quotes once I change the line
>to = esd ?

It is a good habit to put it in quotes, but not strictly needed for
a single parameter. (something like VARIABLE = "param1 param2" must
be quoted)

With K12LTSP 3.1.2, the SOUND_DAEMON variable must be global. Your
x86 clients should work again if you reboot them. 

K12LTSP 4.0 added support for having SOUND_DAEMON on a per-client
basis.

>Also, my local YDL on the macs does already have sound, but should I run
>some sort of test to be sure it is running esd?

I believe you can still hit "Ctrl-Alt-F1" to get to a command line
login prompt. If you can, login and run:

	ps auxw | grep esd

you should see somthing like:  (made up, it won't look exactly the same)

	root    883  0.0  0.0  4796  516 pts/4    R    09:27   0:00 /bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001

>I already tried to add the new line in the inittab and changed the
>lts.conf line on the server.  Didn't work yet, hence the prior
>questions.  I did however manage to kill sound for my PC terminals.  I
>changed back to nasd on the lts.conf and my PC terminal sound came back.
>My current test PC terminals I am checking are the Term150's.
>
>Thanks

Worse case, set SOUND_DAEMON back to nasd and reboot the Term150's....

-Eric

>-----Original Message-----
>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>Behalf Of Eric Harrison
>Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:40 PM
>To: A technical support and discussion community for users of the K12OS
>Linux distribution.
>Subject: RE: [K12OSN] G3's up and running!
>
>
>On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>
>>The only thing I have sound working on is the Term150 diskless 
>>workstation.  I haven't even had the time to try on anything else.  To 
>>me sound isn't very important, but teachers want it available for the 
>>younger crowd to keep them interested (The sound just drives me insane 
>>in a lab).  If you hear of a way to get sound please let me know.  But 
>>thanks for the work on the inittab mods for the -query option.
>
>Here's a theory on how to get sound to work in the environment,
>completely untested ;-)
>
>
>First, you'll want to try esd rather than nasd. Nasd is a pain to 
>compile and the default K12LTSP one won't work on PPC. Esd will be
>included in YDL, so that is a better bet.
>
>Make sure sound is working before making the "-query" change to inittab.
>
>Once sound is working as a "fat" client, in addition to making the
>"-query" change, also add this line to /etc/inittab
>
>
>	esd:5:respawn:/bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001
>
>
>I can't remember off-hand (and can't test at the moment) if esd
>automatically runs as a daemon or not. The man page implies that it does
>not. But if it does, the above line will have to be changed
>to:
>
>	esd:5:once:/bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001
>
>
>Now you can set your K12LTSP server to use esd, in lts.conf set:
>
>	SOUND_DAEMON     = "esd"
>
>
>If my theory is correct, sound should now work with the mac in "thin"
>mode.
>
>
>-Eric
>