ltsp and sound
Matt Johnson
johnsonmlw at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 9 09:57:20 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com>
> To: Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at gmail.com>; "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 9:08
> Subject: Re: ltsp and sound
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at gmail.com>
>> To: "edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com"
> <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 20:06
>> Subject: ltsp and sound
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am giving ltsp on edubuntu a test run after many years of not
>> looking at ltsp. I have problems getting the sound to work properly.
>> My server is an edubuntu version 12.10 running in Virtualbox. It
>> mostly works when using a diskless Virtualbox virtual machine as thin
>> client and booting it from the ltsp server.
>>
>> I also have a Dell laptop that I can boot over the network. I test
>> with the default audio application, rhythmbox. There's no error from
>> rhythmbox on the laptop, but also no sound ;) the timer stays at 0:00.
>> In syslog there is a line that says "[pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed
>> to create sink input: sink is suspended." This log line appears before
>> opening any sound application. There is no firewall on the server.
>>
>> (it also appears that with a
>>
>> --
>> Frank Van Damme
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> I'm no expert but I wonder if the laptop is booting as a fat client because
> it's a capable machine? I seem to recall that I had to add the following
> line to my lts.conf file to make sound work with fat clients. I may
> be remembering this incorrectly.
>
> SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS = false
>
>
> This is documented at the bottom of the following page, where pulseaudio is
> mentioned.
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients
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Matt
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