[K12OSN] disklessworkstations.com

[John Lucas]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:00, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:46:27 -0500
> From: "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] disklessworkstations.com
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> > Another example is the DevonIT NTA
> > 6020P, which is functionally similar the the LTSP150 but costs only
> > $149.
>
> Do these have sound outputs?  From the description on their website it
> doesn't seem so, I could see that as the only drawback.
>

It sure does. On the back it has mini-jacks for input, output and microphone. 
On the front it has only output and mic. I have Esound working with xmms, 
mplayer (and mplayerplug-in) and macromedia flash. 

The only disappointment I have had so far is that the hardware only supports 
USB v1.1. This is true of the lstsp150 as well. I had to 
tweak /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.usb to stop ehci-hd from interferring with 
uhci-hd.

The RPM for mplayer from the greysector repository does not have esd support, 
so I had to make mine from sources (make sure you have esd-devel installed 
first) in order to get esound to work with mplayer.

Here is the significant output for audio from "lspci -vv" on the NTA 6020P:


0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC650)
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


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