[ rdesktop-Bugs-2806356 ] rdesktop requires /dev/dsp

Bugs item #2806356, was opened at 2009-06-14 20:58
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Charlie B (cb20777)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: rdesktop requires /dev/dsp

Initial Comment:
In transitioning from Centos 5.3 to Fedora 11, my rdesktop setup stopped redirecting sound to the client.  It emits the following 2 error messages:

/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
WARNING: no working audio-driver found

My assumption is that rdesktop is still using the  /dev/dsp device, and F11 has apparently dropped that entirely as they have migrated to pulseaudio.  I found a partial workaround is to invoke rdesktop via the "padsp" wrapper.  But its not clear how to do this with tsclient (other than actually replacing rdesktop itself with a wrapper script or something messy and fragile).

Am I missing something subtle?  Does rdesktop really require /dev/dsp, or is that just its first choice?  In any event, I think the Ubuntu folks have done something to fix this problem.  Any chance of getting it pulled upstream?

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