[K12OSN] Update on Morley's K12LTSP situation

[Peter Scheie]

I also wrote a wiki page on 'repairing' Flash 9's broken sound, mostly for my own 
purposes.  So, now we have three accounts of how to get Flash 9 sound working--this is a 
good thing, no such thing as too much documentation.  I've put links to all three on the 
wiki under Software/Admin, clumped together.  Tom, I couldn't find the top level page 
that pointed to your notes on getting stuff to work with the 64-bit install, so I just 
made a link to it under Software/Admin.

Peter

Tom Wolfe wrote:
> Hi Nick, well I have to say it's not easy at all.
> 
> I wrote my own wiki entry. The page you named was none too helpful, but at
> least it gave me the idea of trying pulseaudio. I hope that my own entry
> is at least a little better, but I haven't had any feedback on it and I
> can't yet say whether it has any errors. It uses yum instead of the rpm
> stuff. You might have to enable additional repositories, I've forgotten.
> 
> See
> http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Getting_flash_to_work_with_sound_in_64_bit_platform
> 
> This works for K12LTSP 6.0 64-bit, but I would think you could adapt the
> bottom half for 32-bit and ignore the top half.
> 
> Please let me know if it works for you. It's pretty straightforward once
> you figure it out (or so I seem to recall). But I went through misery
> trying many, many things that didn't work. Why it isn't a simple,
> functional default is beyond me.... the web as a multimedia tool depends
> on Flash with Sound. Or am I completely confused??
> 
> The pleasure I felt when I first successfully fired up a noisy Google
> video cannot be described.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom Wolfe
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Nick Fenger wrote:
> 
>> Tom,
>>
>> How did you get flash sound going? Did you use the wiki?
>>
>> http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_setup_Flash_Player_9_with_esd-pulse_audio_sound_support
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick Fenger
>> Trillium Charter School
>> Portland, OR
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Tom Wolfe <twolfe at sawback.com>
>> To: k12osn at redhat.com
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:29:41 PM
>> Subject: [K12OSN] Update on Morley's K12LTSP situation
>>
>>
>> Hi folks, I've been quiet for a few months on this list but thought I'd
>> share what's going on here in Morley, Alberta, Canada.
>>
>> We now have a single K12LTSP server (dual processor Xeon 64-bit with 8 GB
>> RAM, K12LTSP 6.0) beaming out on a 1 gig switch to a total of 4 different
>> labs: a 10-station lab, an 18-station lab, a 7-station lab, and a
>> 2-station lab. They all have remote desktop (alt-F4) to a terminal server
>> "just in case". And miraculously they now all have Flash (nspluginwrapper)
>> and sound (and even better, flash WITH sound! - pulseaudio). User logons
>> seamlessly connect with Active Directory, including a desktop link to
>> their mounted windows document folders.
>>
>> It's awesome, and it smokes: very fast and clean user experience. Our
>> clients are a hodge-podge, the very best ones being a bunch of PIII IBM
>> Netvistas. Excellent machines, and so easy to configure for PXE it's
>> ridiculous. I also have a bunch of old IBM P1 machines that do fine,
>> except they are a little slow and the video craps out on them now and
>> then.
>>
>> SO that's where I'm at. We have another 20 Netvistas and about 10 Dell
>> GX110 PIIIs (also very capable machines) waiting to find a home.
>>
>> Thanks again for all the help you folks provided back in December and
>> January when I was getting things up and running.
>>
>> If there is anyone else nearby with or thinking of starting a K12LTSP lab,
>> drop me a line.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tom Wolfe
>> Morley, AB (40 mins west of Calgary, 10 mins east of the Rockies)
>>
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