[K12OSN] Browser Sound w/ K12LTSP

[Petre Scheie]

Sound mostly works within Firefox.  Flash is commonly used, so getting that working will 
cover many of the sites.  See these wiki pages for help on getting sound & flash working:

http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/WorkstationSound
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/SoundCards
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#esd_ALSA_sound_on_LTSP_4_2

Also, see the recent messages about getting Flash 9 working with k12ltsp.

Non-Flash video is a little more trouble; you have to install other codecs.  If you 
enable the livna and freshrpms repos in /etc/yum.repos.d, it will make installing these 
other codecs much easier since they can be installed via yum.

Petre

Larry Mateo wrote:
> I'm seeking information about using K12LTSP clients and the Firefox
> browser to access educational sites that use sound and video. We
> currently do not use sound with our clients. Could people please post
> their stories of success or failure? I would also appreciate it if
> people could comment on the above while keeping in mind the envrionment
> I've described below.
> 
> Additionally, besides physically plugging speakers or headphones into
> the client, what else needs to be configured?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> The environment:
> 
> * Three sites. Each with its own onsite K12LTSP server. Each services
> about 30 clients; three to five per classroom. All clients are at least
> two switch hops away from their server. All server Ethernet NICs, switch
> port, and client ports run at 100/F except for a couple of classrooms
> that run at 10/F due to overlong CAT5 runs.
> 
> * K12LTSP software: All at version 5.0.0.; all are using Gnome as the
> desktop environment.
> 
> * Browser: Firefox 1.5.0.7 at two sites; Firefox 2.0.0.1 at one.
> 
> * Servers: One site has a clone server with an Intel L440GX+MB
> motherboard, dual PIII/500MHz CPUs, and 2 GB RAM. The other two sites
> have a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC server with dual Xeon/2GHz CPUs and 2 GB
> RAM.
> 
> * Clients: New Internet Computers (NIC)
> CPU: Cyrix MII-266GP.
> RAM: 64 MB.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Mateo
> Network Technician II
> Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
> larrym at fsusd.k12.ca.us
> 
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