[K12OSN] struggling with sound

[David Trask]

Run (in terminal as root)

gstreamer-properties

Set it for ESD if it isn't


qhartman at lane.k12.or.us on Thursday, August 25, 2005 at 6:06 PM +0000
wrote:
>Colleagues-
>    I have a couple new LTSP installations and I am having a heck of a
>time getting sound to work on the terminals. They are installed using
>some 4.4 pre2 discs, and have been upgraded to the latest everyhting
>using the defaults repositories in synaptic. No sound cards locally
>installed, nor can there be.
>    The terminals have via82xx sound chips built-in on the motherboards. I
>edited lts.conf to use ESD and load the appropriate modules. The
>modules seem to be loading correctly and ESD starts without error.
>Listing the processes running on the terminal from the second vt shows
>that esd is running. When I run "aumix-minimal -q" it returns
>information about the mixer levels that seems appropriate; everything
>is set to either 75% or 67%. Everything seems to be in order. When I
>try "esdplay /usr/share/sounds/cardshuffle.wav" I get no sound, but it
>takes a little bit to return which makes me believe the sound is going
>"somewhere" and the program isn't just failing. I can duplicate these
>results with either the 2.4-based terminal kernel or the 2.6 one. I
>have not tried the progress patch kernel on the terminals yet.
>    I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be any sort of ESD daemon
>running on the server itself. Should there be? Should gnome be set to
>start the sound server at startup?
>    I am somewhat at a loss at this point and would appreciate any
>pointers anyone could give. What else should I check?
>
>-- 
>-Regards-
>
>Quentin Hartman
>Technology Coordinator
>South Lane School District
>Cottage Grove, Oregon
>V (541)767-3778
>F (541)767-3041
>www.slane.k12.or.us
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100