Volume issue on thin-clients FIXED!

[David Trask]

Thanks to Gideon Romm....the volume issue is fixed.  He and I worked
together (basically I tested it and am now doumenting it) to come up with
a fix for what was a problem with very low volume on my thin-clients. 
What this script essentially does is sets the values for alsamixer for the
thin-client as the defaults are too low in most cases.  Here's the fix: 
(feel free to cut and paste)

Download this script to your server(s)

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=110959&use_mirror=osdn&filename=ltsp-setup-more&57561363

Next...do the following commands:

1.  cp ltsp-setup-more /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/init.d

2.  chmod 755 /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/init.d/ltsp-setup-more

3.  chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 update-rc.d ltsp-setup-more start 33 S .     
(yes that's a . at the end....include it)

4.  Add one or more of the following to lts.conf:  
(/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf)

VOLUME=
HEADPHONE_VOLUME=
PCM_VOLUME=
MIC_VOLUME=
CD_VOLUME=
FRONT_VOLUME=

Example:


VOLUME=99
HEADPHONE_VOLUME=95
PCM_VOLUME=95
MIC_VOLUME=85
CD_VOLUME=100
FRONT_VOLUME=100

I chose to put all of mine at 100, (these values go up to 100%) as I have
volume controls on the headphones...and the users can use the GUI volume
control.  The you'll need to reboot the clients and they should have nice
loud sound  (mine do!)  :-)


David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100