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

[vagrant at freegeek.org]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:10:11PM -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:04 -0700, vagrant at freegeek.org wrote:
> > could you please test the new packages and see if this adequately
> > addresses the issues you experienced?
 
> 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:

it should default to pulseaudio by default without setting that
variable. i'll attempt to confirm that it does.

>   http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Feisty/HOWTO:_PulseAudio
> There may be other good information in there)

thanks for the URL. i've also looked at:

  /usr/share/doc/libasound2-plugins/README-pulse

which gives some more information about configuring alsa to use
pulseaudio.

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

yes, this is a dependency of the ltsp-server-standalone package. i'll
add ltsp-server-standalone dependencies as suggests to the ltsp-server
package.
 
> 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.

yeah, i'll experiment a little more with a cleanly installed system to
see if i can get the packages to work without configuration.
 
> 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?

i'll look into it.

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  vagrant