[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#425057: please test sound support for ltsp

[Bryan Sutula]

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:04 -0700, vagrant at freegeek.org wrote:
> as of ltsp 5.0.8debian2, sound support should be much easier to set for
> gnome, and with the instructions petter provided on this bug report
> (http://bugs.debian.org/425057) should be possile to configure for KDE
> apps as well.
> 
> could you please test the new packages and see if this adequately
> addresses the issues you experienced?
> 
> if you want to test on etch, see the bottom page for information about
> using the "backported" packages:
> 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto

>From what I can tell, the new version (5.0.8) is more capable, but it's
still a long way from just working.  So far, I'm doing the following in
addition to the instructions at the wiki:

- Using "SOUND_DAEMON = pulse" in lts.conf (not sure if it's necessary,
but when things still didn't work much better, I started trying to
understand:
  http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Feisty/HOWTO:_PulseAudio
There may be other good information in there)

- apt-get install libasound2-plugins on the server (this was the key to
getting a bunch of ALSA apps working on clients)

Note that I also did some of the steps described in the above HOWTO
(Installation, ALSA Configuration).  I don't know how much of this is
necessary.

At this point, I can get ESD and ALSA applications to work.  I don't
have a very stock system any more and I certainly don't have an
understanding of the various sound systems, so won't be much help
documenting what it really takes to get sound working.

Is there someone who would know what Ubuntu has done in this area, that
could contribute a write-up of how to get sound working well under
Debian/LTSP?

-- 
Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula at hp.com>