Re: [K12OSN] Sounds of Silence

[anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin snet net>]

Petre Scheie wrote:
> Hallelujah!  Someone else is having the same problem I am!  Not that I 
> have the answer. :-(  But at least I don't feel so alone any more.
>
> Sound hasn't worked for a while for me but I haven't been able to figure 
> out what I changed to break it.  I think it was working but it's been so 
> long that I'm not certain it was or if I'm just confusing it with my old 
> 2.1.x server where it did work.
>
> Anyway, I get the same thing in my gnome-term and xterm sessions, where 
> the first couple of lines before the prompt say something like 'can't 
> resolve wallaceltsp' where wallace is the name of my client as defined 
> in dhcpd.conf and /etc/hosts.  ltsp would seem to be the domain, but I 
> don't think I ever defined a domain.  If I type 'domainname' it just 
> says (none).  But if I do a 'who' it shows me as being on wallace.ltsp. 
>  I have wallace and wallace.ltsp defined in /etc/hosts.  Yesterday, I 
> was trying to get play an MP3 using xmms under gnome (someone posted 
> recently that sound doesn't work under KDE) but it kept giving me an 
> output device error.  

Yeah, output device error.  But running sndconfig is of no use.
It crashes at the test sound.


I looked in xmms's configuration and found that it
> was trying to talk to wallaceltsp.  I changed it to wallace.ltsp and 
> voila! the MP3s play.  But if I shut xmms down, I have to go through 
> those steps again to make it work.  The question is, where is it getting 
> this wrong hostname that's missing the dot?  I've looked extensively 
> through the dhcpd.conf and have been trying to dig through the various 
> files in /opt/ltsp/, but to no avail so far.

Hmmm, but what about other sound programs, too?  I get no sound with 
flash media on line, but I get all the usual blips and beeps when IMs or 
mail come my way...I'm lost here.
I just edited my /etc/hosts, and it seems to have solved some other 
minor issues I was having, but has had no effect on sound.

> BTW, a while back I installed Win4Lin which installs its own kernel. I'm 
> having some other problems with gnome and KDE freezing after the user 
> logs in.  So, thinking the kernel change may have caused it, I rebooted 
> using the original non-Win4Lin kernel which is what I'm running right 
> now.  But that didn't fix the missing dot in the hostname problem, so I 
> plan to go back to the Win4Lin kernel and verify that I can still use my 
> workaround to make sound work.
>
> That's all I have so far.  HTH.
>
> Petre
>
> anthony baldwin wrote:
>
> > You'll recall that I was having sound issues.
> > When I logged out of KDE and into Gnome to see if the problem was an 
> > Arts problem and maybe I could get sound in Gnome (didn't) I got an 
> > error saying Gnome couldn't find localhost.localdomain,
> > Well, I had editied /etc/hosts to call the machine darthvader.deathstar
> > apparently this was messing things up (everytime I su at root I would 
> > get a similar msg).
> > So I su-ed and pico /etc/hosts and edited it to reflect the desired 
> > name of localhost.localdomain again.
> > Could the sounderserver have been having issues due to the same thing?
> > Seems like I had sound when I edited this months ago, but just lost 
> > sound after a recent kernel update.
> > How much am I potentially screwing things up by messing with the 
> > nameof the machine in /etc/hosts?  I updated the kernel while it was 
> > labeled darthvaer.deathstar  Will the kernel be confused now that I 
> > have changed it back to localhost.localdomain?
> > Just how stupid do these questions make me look, anyway?
> >
> > tony
>
>
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