[X2go-dev] x2go thinclient under Debian Lenny problem with sound

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 13:39 +0100, Philipp Huebner wrote:
> On 02/12/10 15:17, Markus Homburg wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> Yes, we found our initial problems were because pulse was not running.
> >> I believe pulse is configured to start on boot in the init sequences
> >> when it is installed in Lenny but I'm not sure.  I do not recall doing
> >> anything special on the client side - John
> > I have still problems to get the sound to work. Hopefully there
> > will be a howto some day...
> 
> I would like that very much, too.
> 
> Regards,
We do not have an exact how-to on our setup.  Here are snippets of our
internal documentation in case they may be of help:

We installed pulseaudio from lenny-backports

We must configure the mplayer plugin to use pulseaudio.  To do this,
create an /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf file with the following contents:
ao=pulse
download=1
cachesize=1024
cache-percent=25
keep-download=0
dload-dir=$HOME
noembed=0
autoplay=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=0
enable-gmp=1
enable-dvx=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=1
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0

# Add the user to the fuse and pulse groups
sed -i -e "s/^fuse:.*$/&,${1}/" -e "s/^pulse:.*$/&,${1}/" -e
"s/^pulse-rt:.*$/&,${1}/" -e "s/^pulse-access:.*$/&,${1}/" -e "s/:,/:/"
${VPATH}${1}/etc/group

knotifyrc:
[Misc]
External player=paplay
Use external player=true
Volume=100

[StartProgress]
Arts Init=false
KNotify Init=true
Use Arts=false

We have  some packages we must install from testing (Squeeze).
Evolution does not support WebDAV contacts until the testing version
(2.28) and paplay cannot play the KDE ogg file sounds until it has the
libsndfile1 from testing.

/etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc:
# which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp"
#ICEWEASEL_DSP="padsp"


I know it's not exact but it is working for us.  Hope it helps - John