[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[Timothy Legge]

I know this does not help your sound issue but you
should make it known up front whether you are willing
to support this new Windows lab.  

I am assuming that you are volunteering for the LTSP
lab BUT no one should have to volunteer time to
supporting a Windows lab...

For the sound, I have updated the LTSP on my K12LTSP 4
servers directly from LTSP.org.  I believe that our
sound works but I don't always hear about issues.

Tim

--- David Hopkins <dahopkins429 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
> It appears that sound works for some and not for
> others.  Unfortunately, I
> appear to be firmly in the 'not for others' camp
> most days.  Now, this issue
> has come to a head here at NCS.  I have been told to
> either get sound
> working by February 16th (flash, movies in various
> formats like real player,
> media player,etc) or else NCS will find a different
> approach. In other
> words, a MS-based solution.  What is pushing this is
> that teachers have
> decided (and management has agreed) that the school
> should be using
> UnitedStreaming and a contract has been signed. 
> Now, I have to have sound.
> 
> So, I have a couple of weekends to try and get this
> fixed.  I am at FC5.  I
> can upgrade to FC6 is absolutely necessary, but even
> then there are issues
> with the installer recognizing my RAID card (2010s).
> 
> Currently, I have sound with the edutainment apps. 
> It can be a little laggy
> at times, but ... it works.  I am re-installing
> mplayer, hoping that doing
> so will get the movies working (using info from the
> list and the wiki).  And
> that leaves flash and shockwave.  Shockwave is a
> non-starter (well, maybe
> with wine, but ... purchasing codeweavers might
> work, but is
> cost-prohibitive since doing so gets into the same
> price range as an
> MS-based solution).  As recent email to the list
> suggests, flash 9 is also
> having problems. So ... if anyone has success
> stories and are willing to
> take the time to add them to the wiki, I suspect
> alot of others on the list
> (besides just me) would find it very useful.
> 
> Next, my version of LTSP still has the 'only works
> for first user' issue.
> An upgrade is in order.  Is there a simple way to
> upgrade just LTSP without
> breaking the customizations which K12LTSP uses (and
> which make life alot
> simpler in many respects)?
> 
> Finally, pulseaudio, asla, esd, nasd, gstreamer etc
> have been mentioned as
> possible solutions to the 'sound issue', but
> currently it appears that there
> isn't a firm solution.  I have been trying to get a
> solid solution for
> literally a few years now.  I have had sound working
> at varous times, but
> then it would lag so severely in videos as to be
> useless.  Powers-that-be
> want (demand) a solution by February 16th.  Since I
> can't work on the
> systems during the day, I have weekends and some
> evenings.  I am willing to
> try any suggestions this  weekend.  I am not a Linux
> guru, but am also not
> completely new to this.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
> NCS parent volunteer
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