I've been reading through the archives. I've gone back to the LTSP 2.x era without finding anything definitive, so I'm going to go ahead and post.
I've got LTSP 3.0 up and running, and serving a workstation successfully. I'm very pleased with how well this has gone so far, and am grateful to all the folks who have worked to make this resource available. For the moment, I have only one client. It's a P166 (i586) with 96 MB of RAM and a SB 16. This machine has proven to be an excellent application for this technology, because it's too slow, and too low on disk capacity to be a good, stand-alone computer, yet it's more than fast enough to handle its role as an X terminal, even when being served KDE 3 with all its eye candy dongles cranked to the max. I'm running all applications on the server. The only thorn still in my side is sound. I've installed the latest sound package I could find (ltsp_sound-3.0.1-i386.tgz) and have had some success, yet my ultimate goal eludes me. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on the server, and my terminal users are running KDE 3.0.0. I originally configured lts.conf to use esd for the sound server. That yielded no sound in KDE at all, but XMMS and several games worked just fine. I found and installed NAS, and switched the config to use nasd instead. Now KDE 3 produces lovely flatulent noises. Eventually, I get a message to the effect that ths sound server is giving up, and shutting down its output. (I didn't paste the error... Sorry...) Upon startup, I sometimes get the message: Sound server warning message: Can't set real-time scheduling priority. You need to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. This means that you will likely not be able to produce acceptable sound (i.e. without clicks and breaks). Well, indeed, I'm not getting "acceptable" sound. I tried setting the suid bit on that script, and now KDE doesn't even attempt to provide sound. I'm wondering where to go from here. My web searching found a message from someone to the packagers of Mandrake 8.2, during its beta period, asking that they be sure to compile KDE with NAS support. This implies that it may be something easily overlooked. I'm using a version of KDE 3 compiled by a third-party contributor who goes by the name of Texstar. I have no idea whether Texstar compiled NAS support into KDE 3. He's usually busy, so I don't expect a response from him on the matter anytime soon. First, is there any easy way to find out whether he did or not? Something I can grep for in the binaries? Second, has anyone compiled KDE 3 with NAS support, and gotten artsd sound to work correctly on the client machines? Compiling KDE 3 looks like a massive undertaking, but I'm willing to attempt it if so doing affords me a reasonable chance of success. Finally, should I just give it up and accept what's working? My family can play music and such like as things stand now, and play DOOM. I'd like to get sound working so that we can play KBattleship with audio on both machines, but it's not critical. -- Michael McIntyre zone 6b in SW VA Silvan Pagan umount /mnt/windows;mke2fs /dev/hde1;tune2fs -j /dev/hde1 www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
