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

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:37 +0100, Markus Homburg wrote:
> On 25.11.2010 11:39, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> <snip>>>
> > In my client KDE, the sound server is completely disabled. It uses pulse
> > only.  On the server, artSd is configured for networking and uses ESD.
> Ok, so if you don't have to configure the windowmanager
> will it work in gnome as well? You don't have installed pulse on
> the server?
I don't know about Gnome as I've not used it but I would guess it would
work just fine.  I do have pulse installed on the server.  Pulse talks
to pulse across the network so it must be installed on both sides.
> 
> 
> > On the server side, we needed to upgrade paplay from Squeeze as the
> > Lenny version did not support playing the ogg files sometimes used for
> > KDE sounds.  In the knotifyrc configuration file (~/.kde/share/config/
> > unless you are using KIOSK mode), we set External player=paplay.  Of
> > course, this is just for KDE.  Anything which natively uses pulse should
> > work although you may need to configure the application to use pulse.
> > We had some issues with Firefox (Iceweasel) but I believe these were
> > cleaned up with upgrades although we might have needed to install from
> > either backports or squeeze; if it is a problem, let the list know and
> > I'll see if I can dig out what we did.
> Maybe squeeze gets stable in the next couple of weeks and so it is not
> important anymore.
> 
> 
> > Most importantly, is pulse actually running on both sides, e.g., ps -e |
> > grep pulse? Good luck - John
> On the server I had to create /etc/asound.conf after the installation of 
> the packages and to add the users in the pulse groups. Furthermore I had 
> to start it with "pulseaudio -D". But I have to find out if there is a 
> way to start it automatically at startup.
> But the bigger problem is how to start pulse in the client?
<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