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

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> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:10:11PM -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> > 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:
...snip... 
> >   http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Feisty/HOWTO:_PulseAudio
> > There may be other good information in there)

yes, this proved valuable.

the magic is:

  apt-get install libasound2-plugins

and adding the following lines to /etc/asound.conf:

  pcm.!default {
          type pulse
  }
  
  ctl.!default {
          type pulse
  }

and then configure sound applications to talk to alsa. seems like
several gnome and kde apps worked without configuration.  xine-ui also
worked without configuration. xmms required telling it to use alsa
instead of oss. ironically, alsaplayer didn't work.

libasound2-plugins is a dependency for the ltsp-server-standalone
package, but it's good to document for people who just want the sound
support and not the other stuff that ltsp-server-standalone pulls in.
also, if you only install ltsp-client-core, instead of the default
ltsp-client metapackage, you'll need to install some of the sound
related packages into the chroot.

also need to document loading sound modules for when the sound card
isn't autodetected.

i think i will make the sound dependencies for ltsp-server-standalone
and ltsp-client-core hard-depend on only the pulse+alsa stuff, even
though we support other sound systems, the (nearly) out-of-the-box
support should be limited to one sound system.

so with a little more documentation, maybe we can soon close this bug :)

live well,
  vagrant