On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:29:16 -0600
"Hieromonk Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're running Suse 10.0 with LTSP 4.2 using esd for sound. I do not
> have a sound card on the server. I have sound working on the clients
> for things like mplayer and gnome.
>
> I can not get a lot of the multimedia applications to work, it seems,
> because they only want to use alsa or oss, and do not recognize a
> sound device. I especially would like to get Skype and some music
> sequencer like Rosegarden or NoteEdit to work.
>
> Does anyone know of a music sequencer (where you can write, play and
> print sheet music) that supports esd? I haven't been able to find
> one.
>
> Is there some way that I can run these programs so they will redirect
> sound to esd (or something) so they will give sound on the client?
>
> Would it help -- or hurt -- if I put a sound card in our server so
> alsa at least can find a sound card? It seems to me that this really
> is not going to help. I have a sound card in a test server, and
> although Skype, for instance, gives sound on the server, it doesn't
> on the client.
>
> Is there some way to set up local sound without having to go through
> all of the hassles of trying to build some of these programs to run
> as local apps? Skype, for instance, is not open source....
>
> Has anyone gotten Skype to work on the clients?
>
> I would really appreciate some general advice about what direction I
> should take towards getting some of these programs to run -- or
> whether I should just give up and not even bother trying to get them
> to work. I would rather not waste my time fighting with this any
> longer if these programs are just not going to work no matter what I
> do. But if there is something that I can do that I'm just missing,
> I'd really appreciate it if some one (or more) of you could point me
> in the right direction.
>
> And, by the way, I think you are all terrific people. It's a joy to
> read this list. I can't help very often; but you all sound like
> really great people. The way you all help each other is really nice,
> and some of the things you are doing with LTSP is very impressive. I
> learn a lot just from watching this list.
>
> I hope you can help with a little advice.
>
> With very kind regards,
>
> Peter, hieromonk
>
For all you questions about Skype, I know there is an article (Linux
Journal maybe) that discusses using LTSP in a call center setting. If I
remember it was Skype and KDE that they used.
As for some of the others, I use a small script to wrap a lot of my kids
games. I use LTSP at home, and the server is also my desktop machine
(so sometimes the kids will log in while sitting at the server instead
of just at a client).
Here is one of them:
$ cat /usr/local/esd-bin/frozen-bubble
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$DISPLAY" != ":0.0" ]; then
echo "running $0 with esd wrapper."
exec esddsp /usr/games/frozen-bubble
else
echo "running $0 without a wrapper."
exec /usr/games/frozen-bubble
fi
echo "end esd wrapper script"
If your users do not need the terminal, then you can just put a bunch of
scripts into you own directory, then add that directory to the very
front of the users $PATH.
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