[X2go-dev] OT: Sound issues

[John A. Sullivan III]

Argh!! did it again - blasted reply all! :)

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 17:57 +0200, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
> Am 03.04.2010 14:06, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
> > We're finding it very hit and miss when it comes to sound.  Kaffeine
> > works but Noatun does not.  Sometimes flash plays sound across the X2Go
> > connection and sometimes it does not.  We never get other browser sounds
> > (e.g., our Zimbra "pings" when there is new mail or a new IM).  We began
> > to get Twinklephone working but then it stopped (something has obviously
> > changed in our environment and we're still tracking that down).
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> to use pulseaudio to forward sound, the applications need to be able to 
> use pulseaudio. Even if KDE 3.5 is a popular platform for the use with 
> x2go, it is not possible to get audio forwarding working out of the box.
> KDE 3.5 can't use pulseaudio nativly. This means without configuration 
> you won't be able to forward sound with the pulseaudio option (but you 
> can use arts instead).
> KDE 3.5 can use esound as "sound device" so you can use the esound 
> option too. To make it more complex, you can have pulseaudio emulating 
> esound so after those 3 steps, KDE 3.5 will be able to use pulseaudio too.
> The funny thing is, that this last option works best :).
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Heinz
Thanks, Heinz. So we'll configure away! We were originally thinking of
arts with ALSA and tweaking asound.conf  It sounds like (no pun
intended) you're intimating we're better off configuring arts to use ESD
and then configure Pulse to emulate ESD.

Any applications that can work with Pulse we'll set up natively and the
rest we'll direct to ESD.  Is that the approach? Thanks again - John