I brought this up with Sun support back in mid-2009. It's a long-known
issue since Sun Ray still uses the old SADA infrastructure, but doesn't
implement the mixer(7I) interface (CR 4860451 RFE: want audio mixer
functionality (was: sound conflicts with sunphone and other apps)). Sun
Rays can do mixing in hardware, so the workaround I've been using on Solaris
10 is this:
**********
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Allow multiple Sun Ray audio devices.
# Sun Ray team has indicated to us that this will be fixed in a future
release, but that this is the current workaround.
#
# Based on a script supplied by Kent Peacock at Sun.
# --William Yang 2008/07/25
#
#Only if this is a Sun Ray session.
if [ -n "$SUN_SUNRAY_TOKEN" ]
then
trap "pkill -f utaudio.*$$" 0 1 2 15
AUDIODEV=`/opt/SUNWut/bin/utaudio $$`
UTAUDIODEV=$AUDIODEV
fi
"$@"
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You'll need to prefix all the programs you launch with this; i.e.
"utaudiowrap /usr/bin/firefox". We actually made this transparent for users
by adding a /usr/local/bin_override to our system PATHs and added one-liner
bash scripts for the handful of programs we have that produce audio
(browsers and media players). For example, the "firefox" one has:
utaudiowrap /usr/bin/firefox "$@"
and the "vlc" one has:
utaudiowrap /usr/local/bin/vlc "$@"
Unfortunately, in part of my communication with Sun support back in
mid-2009, I was told that there weren't plans to implement the mixer
interface because of the expected transition to OpenSolaris and its new
OSS/Boomer framework, but I guess that hasn't taken place or been released
yet (CR 6886780 Integrate Sun Ray audio framework with audio framework in
OpenSolaris).
Hope this helps.
William Yang
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunray-users-boun...@filibeto.org [mailto:sunray-users-
> boun...@filibeto.org] On Behalf Of marty scholes
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:58 PM
> To: sunray-users@filibeto.org
> Subject: [SunRay-Users] Multiple audio clients in a session, only one
> makes sound
>
> I apologize if this is covered elsewhere but I couldn't find it discussed.
>
> The software is SRS 5.1 on OSol 128a. All clients are local, a blend of
> 102 and
> 1G models.
>
> The "desktop replacement" experience is fairly solid, until multiple
> programs
> try to produce audio. I notice that opening a Windows machine with
> VirtualBox
> will cause that Windows instance to produce sound, but other programs are
> silent.
>
> As I write this, I was trying to watch a training video for my job in
> Firefox
> and it was silent. I have three VirtualBox sessions up and am not
> entirely sure
> which one has exclusive access to the audio device.
>
> Is there a way to mix the outputs from the various programs? This is kind
> of
> annoying in an otherwise nice environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Marty
>
>
>
>
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