[K12OSN] Sound in Flash but not TuxType

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Fri Oct 28 18:14:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:37:13AM -0500, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> I had an extended power failure that caused some hard drive damage to my 
> 4.4 machine.  Since I'm NFS mounting /home from another server, what was 
> on the K12LTSP server was pretty much expendable.  So, I simply replaced 
> the drive and started with a clean install.  Now I have sound on the 
> terminals in flash-enabled sites such as starfall.com using ESD but no 
> sound in TuxType or other such applications.  Is there something I 
> missed in the install, or some tweak I need to do?  Any ideas?

I'm not sure what Flash uses for sound in the back-end, but TuxType I
believe uses SDL, so you might need to tell SDL which audio driver to
use.  (e.g., set the env. var "SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd", or tell it some
other way)

-- 
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
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