[K12OSN] Sound on terminals

[cliebow at downeast.net]

i lost your icewm fix..still have it?? chuck
> Hi,
> 
> In my experience both with 3.12 and before as well as with my current
> K12LTSP 4.1 sound does work, but not in KDE.  It is most likely to work in
> IceWM as that's where many of us have concentrated our efforts.  Don't
> even bother with sound in KDE...especially in a terminal environment.  KDE
> uses ARTS and K12LTSP uses either esound or nasd.  
> 
> 
> "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
> Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 3:31 AM +0000 wrote:
> >>> I did a quick try with sound on my terminals. The terminals are Dell
> >>> Optiplex PC's with PCI soundcard. I use K12LTSP 4.0.1, and haven't
> >>> changed anything in lts.conf. It looks like sound is enabled with Y and
> >>> nasd in the config file. 
> >>> 
> >>> Sound does not work. Not in KDE, not in Gnome and not in IceWM.
> >>> 
> >>> When I try to stream webradio through xmms I get output plugin failure.
> >>> When I log on to KDE it says /dev/dsp does not exist.
> >
> >>I have the same results, but today I found that the sound works for
> >>tuxmath and tuxtype.
> >
> >Hmm. You're right. This happens here as well. So sound does work for some
> >programs. Now, how to get it  working for other programs as welll?
> >
> >I use a few educational programs in wine. Is it possible to play sounds
> >through wine on terminals?
> >
> >Also, I would like to get sound in xmms and mplayer as well.
> >
> >Regards 
> >
> >Trond Mæhlum
> 
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
> 
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