Hello all! As promissed, I would like to write a few words about sound in KDE, referring to Noel's post of December 1.
First, make sure you have the ltsp-sound package installed (the /etc/profile.d/ltsp-sound.sh file on the server). Then: 1. If you have, as most modern distributions do, KDE with ESD support then all you have to do is to go to the Control Center --> Sound and Multimedia --> Sound System, enable system sound and networked sound, then go to the Hardware thumbnail and select as Audio Device the Enlightened Sound Daemon. Then in the System Notifications menu, after enabling sounds and choosing KDE system sound in the Plaer Setting dialog, you should hear KDE system sounds, possible after relogging. 2. If your KDE has no support for ESD (as mine, until very recently) you can still hear system sounds without OSS/ESD redirection. In the Player Settings dialog of the System Notifications menu you must use a simple external player capable of using ESD. On my Fedora 5 I chose ogg123 of the vorbis-tools. I created a script called oggesd, which must be put somwhere on the path: #!/bin/bash ogg123 -d esd $1 and put it as an external player in the Player Settings. That's all. 3. Unfortunately, OSS/ESD redirection doesn't work for me, although I think I strictly followd procedures described in Wiki: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound#Terms and in Noel's post about ~/.kde/env. I have error messages of the kind: cannot preload the library..... . I must work on it yet, maybe. The reason I, and other people, may need redirection working is that it is probably the only way to heare sound on the terminals when playing movies in the .3gp format, created with cell phones and my users have plenty of them, some are really nice :) The only program I know about that can play them with sound in Linux is RealPlayer 10. Unfortunately it has no esd support, contrary to its prior versions like RP 7. Xine cannot play them at all and modern versions of MPlayer can only play video and no sound from them. So the fact that both great players are ESD-aware and can play cound on the terminals is of no help. So I would greatly appreciate if someone could help mi with OSS/ESD redirection, anyway. All the best Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
