[ILUG] Re: rdesktop & Sound

[Marcus Furlong]

On Saturday 25 October 2008 17:26 in
<45afe5250810250926k14b25af0wc07d9db67505d6f1 at mail.gmail.com>, Joe Molloy
wrote:

> Well I can't claim to know a lot about this - I'm a lowly web developer so I
> tried everything you both suggested.  First cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp and
> got white noise which I guess at least means that nothing else is grabbing
> /dev/dsp.  I had read anyway that when that happens you see the error when
> you run rdesktop. I then tried modprobing the modules suggested, got no
> errors and tried rdesktop without sending it through aoss and still no
> sound.  Though Vista says it is playing back the sound through RDP I am
> wondering now if it really is.  I need to use TS from another machine to
> check if the sound gets sent to that but don't have access to one for the
> time being.  All other sound functions on the Acer are working fine, even
> Skype which I believe uses OSS.
> 
> Happy to try any other suggestions anyone has.
> 
> Joe

rdesktop 1.6 seems to support alsa natively. Maybe you could download the
tarball and run configure with debug sound support to get more verbose
output: 

./configure --with-sound=alsa --with-debug-sound
make

Marcus.