Yes, this is normal. X doesn't handle sound. The Enligtened Sound Daemon
[or esound] does, however I don't have too much experience with it beyond
knowing it works.
Mike
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> Yesterday I was playing around with running X on MachineA from MachineB.
> >From MachineA I executed X -quiet -query MachineB. It connected and gdm came
> up no problem. I logged in with kde as my choice. When the startup wave
> played the sound came from the speakers in MachineB? Is this normal, or
> correct? If I wanted the sound on machine A is there a way to do this?
>
> I am toying with the idea of setting one pc to act as a server not only in
> the traditional sense but to be an xdm server for 2 clients. What I am
> hoping to do is have all the programs I want to located on one machine
> accessable by all clients. Is this even the right route for that? Or should
> I be reading different how-to's?
>
> Thanks Again,
>
> Jerry
>
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