[ILUG] Re: ILUG Digest, Vol 36, Issue 31

[Joe Molloy]

Thanks Marcus but still no joy - downloaded, configured and ran make and
then make install as you suggested.  When I run rdesktop now without
arguments it tells me that alsa is the available sound driver so I assume
everything worked ok but I am still getting no sound - beginning to suspect
that the issue is on the Vista side now but will be a while before I have
access to another machine with TS to test against.

Joe

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> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:26:00 +0100
> From: "Joe Molloy" <molloyjoe at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ILUG] rdesktop & Sound
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> 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.
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> Happy to try any other suggestions anyone has.
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> Joe
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:29:56 +0100
> From: Marcus Furlong <furlongm at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [ILUG] Re: rdesktop & Sound
> To: ilug at linux.ie
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> 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.
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