It would be good if you could add this to the wiki.
Petre
Noel wrote:
> I think I've found the way of having Sound work OK in KDE.
>
> I used a combination of several preexistent methods, based on OSS
> redirection to ESD.
>
> I've did it in a test environment, with Debian testing, KDE 3.5.4 and
> LTSP 4.2 running on an AMD K7 with 1.5GiB RAM, and an EPATec eTHinClient
> as server (which forced to specify the sound module sis7019).
>
> Let me introduce myself before going into it. I'm Noel Torres, master
> technician and developer of Ejercicios Resueltos SLU, a company from
> Canary Islands which works into LTSP classrooms, general Linux teaching
> and system maintenance. We also participated, as members of Grupo CPD,
> in the development of mEDUXa Linux 1.0, the educative Linux distro of
> the Canary Islands Autonomous Government.
>
> Going into matter:
>
> Firstly, I configured my thin clients to have a working ESD using
>
> SOUND = Y
> SOUND_DAEMON = esd
>
> as said in Wiki. Then, I created a script (It needs to be modified for
> Debian, as stated below) saying
>
> REMOTE_X11=${DISPLAY%:*}
> if test "$REMOTE_X11" == ""
> then
> export REMOTEX_11=false
> else
> export ESPEAKER=$REMOTE_X11:16001
> export ESDDSP_MIXER=1
> export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
> $LD_PRELOAD"
> export REMOTE_X11=true
> fi
>
> as said in Wiki too, but I didn't place it at xdm nor any other DM, but
> on $HOME/.kde/env directory for every single user with name
> "startsound.sh". This is not very well documented by KDE, but scripts on
> that subdirectory are executed from within KDE when it starts, and
> environment variables you set in those scripts are available to any
> application started from KDE, which includes almost everything.
>
> Finally, I set KDE to use OSS. This way, all apps using KDE are sounding
> through OSS which is redirected to ESD, which in turn is sent to
> client's ESD and client's speakers, and apps trying to use OSS directly
> are in the same case.
>
> Additional note: in Debian you must modify
>
> export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libesddsp.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
> $LD_PRELOAD"
>
> to
>
> export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/esound/libesddsp.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
> $LD_PRELOAD"
>
> As I said, this was done in a test environment, but we will try it in a
> large production environment soon.
>
> Noel Torres
> ejerciciosresueltos.com
>
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