[K12OSN] Dumb Sound Question

Timothy Hart timothy.hart at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 15:42:09 UTC 2006


It doesn't work on mine. Both Helix and Totem have errors. Helix says
"Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." and
Totem says "Totem could not startup. Could not open resource for writing."
Hmmm

Tim

On 8/11/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:04 -0400, Timothy Hart wrote:
> > That is what I thought. But then why am I getting this error message.
> >
> > The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to
> > control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer
> > plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
> >
> > You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the
> > speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the
> > menu.
> >
>
> I've seen the same error message, yet sound still works. It seems to be
> a bug in the gnome sound control looking at the server instead of the
> client.
> >
> > Default install on K12LTSP 5 with esd activated. I am on a client from
> > disklessworkstations.com. I get the message when I click the volume
> > icon in the top right. When I run the sound card detector it doesn't
> > find anything?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On 8/11/06, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> >         Timothy Hart wrote:
> >         > In a K12LTSP environment, do I need a sound card in the
> >         server to
> >         > make sound work on the clients if the clients have a sound
> >         card?
> >
> >         Nope. ;-)
> >
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