[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.0 beta, thin clients and sound

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Roger Rasmussen wrote:

> Hello!
>
> What must I do to get sound on the thin clients (K12LTSP 4.1.0 and K12LTSP 
> 4.2.0 beta)? I thought that it should work with the default setup?
>
> I have some thin clients with Linux compatible sound card. During the boot the 
> sound card is found. But when I try to play sound on the client it is played 
> at the server and not on the thin client.
>
> What must I do at the server to get the sound to work on the thin clients?


Here is the entry in the K12LTSP wiki:

http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Technical%3ASound



Sound on thin clients is at a relatively early stage of development. Sound
support is turned on by default, but that does not mean it "just works" by
default.

There are currently two different sound sub-systems: esd and nasd. You
can switch between the two to see which best supports your applications
by editing the "SOUND_DAEMON" line in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf

If you select "esd", there you can turn on additional "features" by
adding:

 	REMOTE_SOUND_HACKS=YES

to /etc/sysconfig/k12ltsp


-Eric