Thin Client and Sound

[Jason Shein]

On March 31, 2005 12:01 am, Jason Shein wrote:
> On March 30, 2005 11:46 pm, Phil Kay wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:16 -0500, Matt Cahill wrote:
> > >  Phil,
> > >
> > >   I know that - on some distros - the default mixer settings on KDE
> > >   have the volume set to zero for some reason (I seem to recall
> > >   Mandrake being one of those affected).  You may have checked this
> > >   already, but it's worth a look.
> > >
> > >   Matt
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.  We're using SuSE Server (I suppose I should
> > have mentioned that in the details) and the mixer settings on it are
> > fine (but I don't think that shouldn't affect anything) and using aumix
> > on the thin-client have the sounds fine as well.  XMMS plays just fine
> > if I use the esd output and point it to the thin-client ip address.
> >
> > I don't think it is a mixer setting.  The real issue is how to get the
> > ARTS sound system that advertises the ability to do network sound
> > configured to use it.  There is a check box to "Enable Network Sound" in
> > the sound system settings in the KDE control center, but I can't find
> > anything on what that setting means or if there are any other settings
> > that need be configured.
>
> On your thin client you will need to have aRtsd running, as well as on the
> thin client server. Gnome uses Esd or "Enlightened Sound Daemon". Maybe you
> have Esd running on your thin client setup, but not aRtsd. It depends on
> how you setup your client software.
>
> From my experience, aRtsd is a real PAIN to setup for network sound.

It seems that aRts is no longer maintained, and the website has been taken 
down. 

In a post to kde-core-devel Stefan Westerfeld, author of the KDE multimedia 
framework aRts, announced that he would no longer be maintaining it. 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110200188523177&w=2

I located the google cache of the relevant pages of the manual found here:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Z5XJggHTr8sJ:www.arts-project.org/doc
/handbook/faq-network.html+site:arts-project.org&hl=en

Might be of some assistance.

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