[K12OSN] sound... still not working (fwd)

[Tom Wolfe]

I sent this by mistake only to Petre...


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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:10:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Wolfe <twolfe at sawback.com>
To: Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net>
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] sound... still not working

Hi folks,

Thanks Petre for the leads. I'm not sure that the symbiont hack did
anything.

However, I have made a little progress.

I can sourt of get some sound if I use the local console to fire up esd.
After doing this, I can get a couple of sounds via the
System>Preferences>Sound Preferences>Sounds> check "Enable software sound
mixing" and "Play system sounds".

..but only logoff and logon files open... so I can't say I'm making much
progress.

KDE is the same kind of thing, but I can play a few more of the system
sounds.

Any tips?

Regards,
Tom Wolfe



On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Petre Scheie wrote:

> Have a look at
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#esd_ALSA_sound_on_LTSP_4_2
>
> I have some Dell Laptops with a Maestro3 chip for which sound worked under LTSP 4.1, but
> wouldn't work under 4.2.  After adding Gadi's package AND changing maestro3 to
> snd-maestro3 in audiolist, sound worked.  Consider jumping on #LTSP on IRC where you can
> get help in realtime (which is what I did).
>
> Petre
>
> Tom Wolfe wrote:
> > OK, I've gone through the suggestions folks have kindly passed on, and the
> > ltsp & K12ltsp sound pages (below) and I'm totally stumped. For example:
> > - I've tried from KDE to change the sound settings to enable network sound
> > - I've added the -public flag to the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.sound file,
> > etc.
> > - I'm using a very common and popular sound card (Ensoniq ES1370 AudioPCI,
> > see lspci output below) as suggested
> >
> > The pages I've used as reference:
> > http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/WorkstationSound
> > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound
> >
> > lspci on a workstation console (I uncommented the line in lts.conf that
> > gives me a terminal with ctrl-alt-F2) produces the following:
> > sawback2 at dyyme% cat lspci.txt
> > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
> > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
> > 0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> > 0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> > 0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> > 0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> > 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
> > 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
> >
> > Here is the relevant excerpt from lts.conf on the server
> > (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf):
> >         # enable sound by default
> >         SOUND              = Y
> >         # choose either esd or nasd to be the default (esd only on x86_64)
> >         SOUND_DAEMON       = "esd"
> >         # SOUND_DAEMON     = "nasd"
> >
> >         # default sound volume
> >         VOLUME             = 75
> >
> > ... I've tried both esd and nasd with kde, gnome, and icewm in all
> > combinations. Here's a sample output of esdplay after trying to play a
> > sound:
> > [root at server Desktop]# esdplay lose.wav
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> > returned error: No such device
> > ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> > ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> > [root at server Desktop]#
> >
> > ... Gnome displays the speaker icon in the top right with a red slash;
> > clicking on it brings up an error stating that it can't find any elements
> > and/or devices to control
> >
> > Any helpful tips for me?
> >
> > I've given up on the "it's easy, it works" and am starting to feel more
> > "duh?" than anything.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom Wolfe
> >
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