Hi All, "Quite Some Time ago" I posted this question. No answer and I have been scanning the mailing list in the hope of getting a clue; but nothing so far.
So here's a repost. I am running LTSP avery happily. No sign of any errors and the relevant lines in my lts.conf file: [family] X_MODE_1 = 1280x1024 126.5 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1032 1040 1068 -HSync -VSync X_MODE_2 = 1280x1024 135 1280 1312 1456 1712 1024 1027 1030 1064 SOUND = Y SOUND_DAEMON = esd VOLUME = 100 # Speaker & WAVE volume pecentage SMODULE_01 = auto RUNLEVEL = 5 The sound card is detected just fine and everything is wonderful. Same results as on auto, with: SMODULE_01 = soundcore SMODULE_02 = uart401 SMODULE_03 = via82cxxx_audio which also looks just perfect on startup. HOWEVER, if I actually try to *use* sound on the terminal, I get the error message: "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." For example if I run realplay I get this. I get the same thing if I specify nasd instead of esd. Questions: *** MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION *** How do I debug this? What log files/resources are there to find out what is already using sound, if that is the issue? Obviously I would not mind if anyone pops out with The Answer but right now I would be happy with some path to follow to detect the problem. There were no replies last time. If none this time shall I take it to mean "it either works or not and if not I'm hosed"? If so that would still be useful information. While I am at it I have another question. I have used Toms Root Boot which is also a tiny distribution. But even this comes with an editor. I can edit files with "vi" (of course not the real vi but close enough) and get by. However booting into runlevel 3 on an LTSP terminal I haven't figured out how to edit stuff to try and get things working. I can look at files (using "more") but I have not figured out how to edit for example the X config file in case I want to try stuff. Much quicker this way than rebooting. Surely there is some editor available? If so I haven't seen it in the LTSP docs. And no "find" either for finding stuff. Is there a list somewhere of what's available? Thanks for any help, or if not ... I will be continuing to scan the list. I wuld like to know if anyone alse has seen this even if no solution. I suspect part of the problem may be that I have a heavily "upgraded" server; no clean reload since RH5.2 (now on 7.3). This has caused other strange problems which took a while to track down; maybe this is one more. Might it be worthwhile doing a clean 7.3 install? If so, backup/restore hell ... groan, and all my local config to redo. There has to be an easier way .... One last question, I have a Leadtek A250LE on one client. No support on XFree yet but might be able to use NVidia drivers. Do I have to rebuild the LTSP kernel to get this in or is there some other easier path? The docs are silent on what to do ... not a good sign :-( Thanks, Don Pettengill ------------------------------------------------------- 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
