> Just trying to understand future events or architecture or something > like that. When LTSP is migrated to kernel 2.6, assuming that it's > going to, will it support ALSA sound as is, or am I off base on assuming > that esd and ALSA are occupying the same space?
ALSA and esd are seperate beasts. ALSA replaces the OSS sound drivers, so the hardware sound drivers change. This is a kernel decision and mostly changes stuff in the kernel, though some changes are also noticeable for users (generally better support for the hardware they have got, such as surround sound and so on). Well, ALSA also has other devices in /dev, but it has an OSS emulation layer for /dev/dsp. > I would love to have sound on my LTSP terminals, but I'm in no rush for > buggy LTSP. This thing (LTSP) runs way too well to mess with it. Being > able to set it up and forget about it is pretty nice. I can interpret this in two ways, take your pick according to what you meant: Does this mean that your current sound card isn't supported by the OSS drivers and that you need an ALSA driver? If so you can always install ALSA in the LTSP driver (ALSA comes for kernel 2.4 as well, and many people already use LTSP with 2.6...it is just that they need to compile the kernel themselves, and also they loose NFS swap). However, if you meant that ALSA would help you to set up sound with LTSP in general (as in, helping you to get the sound from the server to the thin-client) then no, it won't do that. The situation will be the same then as now. It doesn't matter what you run on the thin-client, the important thing is what you run on the server. (You either need to set up esd, artsd, nas, or for best results MuNAS, though that is not free). Branching off into technicalities, please ignore: What I personally would like to find (or write, if I suddenly get one extra year of time...) is an ALSA user-space driver (note: this would be used on the SERVER, and work well with the current LTSP). IE a ALSA driver that would forward sound to a userspace program with some information (either $USER or preferably $DISPLAY) so that the program could use standard NAS and transfer it. Then one could take advantage of ALSA OSS emulation, software mixing etc. // Dag SVerre ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
