On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 10:39 +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > My server has been experiencing trouble with alsamixer (it won't load > > and returns "PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection > > refused"). Sound Recorder similarly doesn't load. And don't even think > > about Skype. Weirdly, the clients can load Sound Recorder (though it > > won't actually record). > > Microphone sound (ie sending sound from client back to application > on server) is not, as yet, supported. This does stop sound recorder, > skype, etc. from being useful.
That would certainly explain it. I actually have a telephone->USB adapter (plugged into the server) that I had hoped would allow a client to access the Skype software as though he's on the server and talk via the cordless phone but I haven't got Edubuntu to work properly with the device yet - it recognizes the device (i.e., it's an option in Volume Control/Change Device) but there's no sound to or from the device. That's another thing: why does my Volume Control (from the panel) work even though alsamixer doesn't load from terminal? > > > However, the problem I'm focusing on now is the misdirection of thin > > client sound. As I type this, the many (and strange) sounds from my > > kid's session of Scratch on his client are coming through my (server's) > > speakers - and not through his! > > What applications are we talking about here? Scratch is a bit unusual (scratch.mit.edu/ - it's a programming environment for kids) in that it's really a Windows executable running in Linux under Squeak (see http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=275). I think there was something else being misdirected but can't remember right now. > Can you try some of the > known working ones (Movie Player, Rhythmbox) and tell us how they work? Movie Player and Rhythmbox (not to mention Audacity minus the recording feature) are working fine. > If > you run > echo $ESPEAKER > in a shell on the thin client, what do you see? I get: 192.168.0.245:16001 Thanks so much, David -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
