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>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 9:08
> Subject: Re: ltsp and sound
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>>  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


--
Matt



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