[K12OSN] Sound on terminals, Was: XKB Error

[Eric Harrison]

Hey Jim,

I should have made my post a little clearer. I was thinking about 
short-term, get-it-to-work-today tips and tricks.

As for mid-to-long term strategies, I'm excited to be working with you
to make them happen!

-Eric

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jim McQuillan wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I'm thinking that LTSP has grown enough that we should be able to work
> with the other projects, to help them understand how important it is to
> have network transparent sound.
>
> I figure we'll get some chance to work with the Ubuntu guys on this, and
> then at the end of May I'll be at Guadec (Gnome User and Developer
> European Conference) in Stuttgart.  That will give me a chance to talk
> with the Gnome guys.
>
> I've heard that nasd is a dead project, and esound is being replaced by
> gstreamer.  I've also heard that KDE is adopting gstreamer.
>
> Then there's MAS.  The MAS guys are VERY willing to work with us, but I
> don't know of anybody actually using MAS yet.
>
> It seems to me that if Gnome and KDE are moving towards gstreamer, then
> we need to also.
>
> I guess short-term, we should get esd and nasd working better, but
> long-term we'll head for gstreamer.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Eric Harrison wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Dr. Daniel Loomis wrote:
>>
>>> P.S. Is sound on clients now a lost cause with 4.2.0?  I had it working
>>> very well in 3.1.0, even using crossover plugin. None of the fixes
>>> listed on the Wiki pages have helped.
>>
>> I don't see much happening in the area of sound. I've been trying
>> really hard to erect a "Somebody Else's Problem" field around sound,
>> but one of the schools I support has started to make quite a bit of
>> noise.
>>
>> Perhaps this should be the "long thread of the day"...
>>
>> If you have remote sound working:
>>
>>  * are you using ESD or NASD?
>>  * what applications work, which don't?
>>  * did you have to make any changes from the default?
>>  * other tips and tricks?
>>
>> -Eric
>>