On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:37 +0100, Markus Homburg wrote: > On 25.11.2010 11:39, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> <snip>>> > > In my client KDE, the sound server is completely disabled. It uses pulse > > only. On the server, artSd is configured for networking and uses ESD. > Ok, so if you don't have to configure the windowmanager > will it work in gnome as well? You don't have installed pulse on > the server? I don't know about Gnome as I've not used it but I would guess it would work just fine. I do have pulse installed on the server. Pulse talks to pulse across the network so it must be installed on both sides. > > > > On the server side, we needed to upgrade paplay from Squeeze as the > > Lenny version did not support playing the ogg files sometimes used for > > KDE sounds. In the knotifyrc configuration file (~/.kde/share/config/ > > unless you are using KIOSK mode), we set External player=paplay. Of > > course, this is just for KDE. Anything which natively uses pulse should > > work although you may need to configure the application to use pulse. > > We had some issues with Firefox (Iceweasel) but I believe these were > > cleaned up with upgrades although we might have needed to install from > > either backports or squeeze; if it is a problem, let the list know and > > I'll see if I can dig out what we did. > Maybe squeeze gets stable in the next couple of weeks and so it is not > important anymore. > > > > Most importantly, is pulse actually running on both sides, e.g., ps -e | > > grep pulse? Good luck - John > On the server I had to create /etc/asound.conf after the installation of > the packages and to add the users in the pulse groups. Furthermore I had > to start it with "pulseaudio -D". But I have to find out if there is a > way to start it automatically at startup. > But the bigger problem is how to start pulse in the client? <snip> Yes, we found our initial problems were because pulse was not running. I believe pulse is configured to start on boot in the init sequences when it is installed in Lenny but I'm not sure. I do not recall doing anything special on the client side - John
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