thanks a lot. oddly, I got the speaker (but not the mic) working using twinkle, so I guess that's a start. I'll keep playing with it, but I think the info you provided will be useful as well.
james wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 22:55:39 ltsp-discuss- > requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> So i'm having some weird hardware issues with a headset here. >> >> I can use it as an audio device to spear and hear and record, etc in >> most programs. >> >> but some some reason, my softphone is looking for the default sound >> hardware, and doesn't think the headset is the default. >> >> that is not the case on the server. if I log in there and plug the >> headset right into the server, i get a good signal, but for whatever >> reason, it doesn't respond the same way on the thin client. >> >> I'm not even sure where to begin looking into this (running ubuntu >> karmic for the record). > > Joe this is OT for LTSP, but pulse greatly complicates (and smoothes) the > whole sound issue. I've found that I needed to run both pavucontrol and gnome- > volume-control (side-by-side) to address all the issues I had. > > The SERVER and the CLIENT are ***THE SAME MACHINE*** and the pulse settings > need to be tailored to the site. > > Default and Fallback are not obvious see http://pulseaudio.org/ !!! > > IE appA learns to use the fallback device it will continue to use that > device, > default notwithstanding > IE there is lots of google stuff about the beta (pulse) skype ring on > speakers > and talk on headset. It is easy to *teach* it to do this. > > james > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- joe auerbach systems administrator rossman and co / pcb 614-523-4150 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net