[K12OSN] Sound on terminals, Was: XKB Error

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 08:45 -0600, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > I don't see much happening in the area of sound. I've been 
> > trying really hard to erect a "Somebody Else's Problem" field 
> > around sound, but one of the schools I support has started to 
> > make quite a bit of noise.
> > 
> > Perhaps this should be the "long thread of the day"...
> > 
> > If you have remote sound working:
> > 
> >   * are you using ESD or NASD?
> >   * what applications work, which don't?
> >   * did you have to make any changes from the default?
> >   * other tips and tricks?
> 
> The only sound apps I have needed at home as of late is RealPlayer10 to
> play mp3's and sound in Gcompris for my daughter (I'm sure there is a
> better app for mp3 playback but I wanted to test the Linux version of
> Real).  In order to get sound working here I use NASD for Term150's and
> have my user set to log into IceWM and my daughters into Gnome.  For
> some reason Reals sound won't work in Gnome and Gcompris won't work in
> IceWM. 
> 
> I don't know what the difference is between them but maybe it would give
> someone with more knowledge in this area a clue why sound isn't working
> as well in the newest releases of K12LTSP. 
> 

I seem to have no problem with sound on clients.  My clients have PCI
sound cards (SB-compatible) and cheap external speakers.  I use IceWM
and GCompris for my littlest kids - and am leaning more toward XFce for
them instead (nicer WM, in my opinion).  Sound seems to work with both
WMs.  The kids love sound effects with GCompris (and other kid's apps)
and I have to implore them to turn it down all the time! 

I also have sound on my dual-purpose workstation/K12LTSP server running
XFce with onboard sound and tinny internal speaker.  I also just tested
GCompris on this and it's loud and clear (albeit tinny).  Funny though,
FC3 didn't detect the sound hardware at install and when using KDE's
"detect sound card" utility it always comes up with a blank, whereas RH8
could find it.  Odd.

I had no idea what sound daemon I was using so I did a "ps aux' and root
seems to being using arts whereas users are using esd.  I had no hand in
it being that way, it just happened!

FWIW: I have just set up 4.2.0 in a very small home network consisting
of a dual-purpose server/workstation PII450MHz PC serving only 4 x PII
thin clients (I have the client hard drives in a caddy and I just pop
out the drive when I want to allow a Romomatic floppy boot into K12LTSP.
Thanks, Eric and others - it "just works" and I have been delighted with
how simple v4.2.0 has been to setup).  

(PS: I hope my response adds to the discussion - I certainly don't want
to sound like I'm boasting since I did nothing to achieve success with
sound)
-- 
Regards, 
        Gavin Chester