[K12OSN] Do anyone here REALLY understand LTSP and remote sound?

[Rita Gibson]

Here is a document that might help explain some of the concepts -- 
sometimes rjune is on the LTSP IRC channel:

http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/ltsp/audio/HOWTO-arts.html

Our guru, who is also on this list, Calvin Dodge, has sound working very 
well on our servers, I only occasionally have to specify a sound card 
setting in the lts.conf file for older machines, but recently we have 
been using quite a few Dell GX150s everything just works now. Maybe 
Calvin will join in here with some explanation?

Rita Gibson
RMSELTech

john wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been hacking at my sound issue for the better part of 3 days 
> now and I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>
> -problem 1: sound only for root and only on the server itself
> -problem 2: thin clients don't see ANY sound card (in Gnome) under 
> Preferences>Sound unless I do chmod -R 777 /dev/dsp and chmod -R 777 
> /dev/snd and then they ONLY see the servers Sound card after reboot. 
> Sound has NEVER worked for ANY of the several clients I have tried to 
> use.
>
> Sound seems like a VERY difficult nut to crack. I see lots of requests 
> that never seem to have resolutions on this list. Is there anyone here 
> who feels like they REALLY understand whats going on with remote  
> sound? This isn't a challenge, just a question, because I feel very 
> much in the dark (and of course if you say 'YES' I am going to start 
> asking you questions! :-)
>
> Should I take this to the LTSP list or the LTSP IRC channel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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