Piotr Giza wrote: > Hello all! > > As promissed, I would like to write a few words about sound in KDE, > referring to Noel's post of December 1. > Thanks for reading and giving opinion :) > 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. > I tried that first, but when I choose "Servidor de sonido de Enlightened" (the spanish KDE translation) and click "Apply", I receive an error reading:
Sound server fatal error: AudioSubSystem::handleIO:write failed len = 48, can_write = 512, errno = 0 (Success) This might be a sound hardware/driver specific problem (see aRts FAQ) And then, the bar continues filling and refilling once and again without an end. So I'm unable to use ESD directly from KDE, even when it's present. Even logging out and in again shows me the same message (different lenghts) several times, and no sound is in place. > 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. > I know, but the point in using OSS->ESD redirection is that all KDE programs use it: I can open amaroK, or JuK, or Kaffeine, and all of them will work without further configuration, except Kaffeine that must be configured to use KDE player instead of Kaffeine one (xine) or xine itself be configurated or shell-wrapped. > > 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. > Paste the preloading error. Maybe I can help. > 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. > As I said, paste your preloading error. Maybe it's simply a library naming error, or version incompatibilities. > 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 > > > Noel er Envite ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
