[K12OSN] More feedback on Fedora 10 + LTSP

[David Hopkins]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:04 PM, "Terrell Prudé Jr."
<microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> That sound card (looks like it's built-in) says it has SoundBlaster
> emulation, so when you were running it w/ K12LTSP 5EL, did you by chance try
> turning on "SOUND=Y" in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf, and also the setting
> from here?
>
>   http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Technical:Sound
>
> Something along these lines....
>
>   SMODULE_01 = "sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1"
>
> That sort of thing always worked for me with cards that supported SB
> emulation, including (especially!) the SoundBlaster 16 and the SoundBlaster
> AWE32/64 cards themselves.

Sound works at the client for some programs with LTSP4.2 but because
some packages want esd and some alsa, and some use others, it is
hit-or-miss whether a particular package will 'just work' without
having to worry about twiddling with settings for the package.  With
LTSP5 it seems that sound 'just works' for all the apps the teacher
wants to use. Also, videos stay in sync better.

Sorry if my post implied that sound didn't work at all.  It does work
but LTSP5 seems to work better.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins