Oh, and I'll try your other suggestions tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

db

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, David Burgess<[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried three things:
> 1. lts.conf: SOUND=False
> 2. lts.conf: SOUND=False + screen.d/rdesktop: pkill pulseaudio
> 3. screen.d/rdesktop: pkill pulseaudio
>
> I got no sound on all three efforts, and pulse didn't show up in ps
> -aux on any of those three scenarios. I ran alsamixer and got the
> error on the third effort. I can try again with SOUND=False is
> lts.conf tomorrow.
>
> I'm using ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 on ESXi server. The tc is an older HP,
> t5520 I think, with a 1.2GHz transmeta efficion cpu and ATI chipset.
>
> db
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Gideon Romm<[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Is all this with SOUND=False in lts.conf?
>>
>> The error that you get with alsamixer suggests that the pulse soundcard
>> is set as the default soundcard- which is odd (and the source of your
>> problem).
>>
>> Well, if all else fails, instead of killing pulseaudio, you can work
>> with it and add:
>>
>> export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:127.0.0.1:4713
>>
>> to the rdesktop screen script.  If that *still* doesn't work, you can
>> install "pulseaudio-utils" in the chroot and make the screen script
>> call:
>>
>> padsp rdesktop -r sound:local:oss ....
>>
>> But, this is getting ugly.  What distro did you say you are using?
>>
>> -Gadi
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:32 -0600, David Burgess wrote:
>>> r...@ltsp371:~# alsamixer
>>> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
>>> Connection refused
>>>
>>>
>>> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
>>>
>>>
>>> r...@ltsp371:~# ps aux | grep -i pulse
>>> root      8474  0.0  0.2   2076   576 pts/0    S+   16:28   0:00 grep -i 
>>> pulse
>>>
>>>
>>> r...@ltsp371:~# lspci | grep audio
>>> 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link
>>> Controller Audio Device (rev 10)
>>> r...@ltsp371:~#
>>>
>>> I think I must have the sound driver because sound works in an ldm
>>> session. It's quite loud too, so I don't know that alsamixer would be
>>> the answer if it did run.
>>>
>>> db
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Gideon Romm<[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> > In the shell, run "alsamixer"
>>> >
>>> > if it works, turn the volume way up.
>>> > if it doesn't, you probably don't have the soundcard driver for the
>>> > soundcard.  check: lsmod|grep snd
>>> >
>>> > Do you know what soundcard it has?
>>> >
>>> > also, rdesktop should be:  -r sound:local
>>> >
>>> > -Gadi
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:09 -0600, David Burgess wrote:
>>> >> No joy. I tried both methods. Although 'ps aux | grep -i pulse'
>>> >> doesn't show in the shell, still no sound from the rdp session.
>>> >>
>>> >> Any other ideas?
>>> >>
>>> >> db
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gideon 
>>> >> Romm<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> > This might seem odd, but try setting:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > SOUND=False
>>> >> >
>>> >> > in your lts.conf.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > By default, LTSP runs pulseaudio on startup, which hogs the audio
>>> >> > device.  You either need to add a "pkill pulseaudio" to the rdesktop
>>> >> > screen script, or make rdesktop use pulseaudio, or, as with 
>>> >> > SOUND=False,
>>> >> > instruct LTSP not to start the sound daemon (udev should still load the
>>> >> > sound driver modules).
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Cheers,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -Gadi
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 14:58 -0600, David Burgess wrote:
>>> >> >> Hi, it's me again.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Thanks to good help from the list so far I have my tc booting up to
>>> >> >> rdp. I can log in, and all seems well, but no sound.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I'm using ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 as ltsp server. Here are some lines from 
>>> >> >> lts.conf:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> SCREEN_07=rdesktop
>>> >> >> RDP_OPTIONS="-dGPRC -z -a24 -P -f -0 -rsound:local -u userid"
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I also tried with "-rsound:remote" and without the "-0", but still no
>>> >> >> sound. I tried an ldm login and sound worked there.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I have tc's on identical hardware connecting to the same Windows term
>>> >> >> server and they get sound. They are using a local debian-based boot
>>> >> >> image with the following command line:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> rdesktop -dGPRC -f -a24 -rsound:local -ken-us -z -rdisk:usbdev
>>> >> >> /media/usb0 fvtc001
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Something to do with ubuntu's sound server perhaps?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> db
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