Re: rdesktop remote sound

Jean-Michel Dault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.devel
Message-ID <1257443701.17031.17.camel@laptop-jmdault>
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 12:47 -0500, E. M. Recio wrote:
> Just wondering if there are any fixes in for remote sound? "/dev/dsp"
> no longer exists, alsa comes up with scratchy sound, and pulseaudio
> just clicks.

You can still use /dev/dsp. Here's what I do for perfect sound:

1) Tell Alsa not to use the pulseaudio driver: 
asoundconf unset-pulseaudio

2) killall pulseaudio

3) Use oss emulation under alsa:
modprobe snd_pcm_oss

4) Launch rdesktop with oss
rdesktop -r sound:local:oss:/dev/dsp


-- 
Jean-Michel Dault
Technology Architect
[email protected]
Révolution Linux inc
http://www.revolutionlinux.com


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