Re: Sound over X
Having failed with NAS, here is what I have done with esound.
esound was already installed (part of Gnome) on both the laptop and the
desktop.
First I have to configure the server on the laptop:
I've changed the file /etc/esd.conf to show:
[esd]
auto_spawn=1
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5
spawn_wait_ms=100
# default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
default_options=-public -tcp -promiscuous
The important bits here are the first and last lines.
After this is done you start esd in the background by using:
esd &
I then installed esound-clients on the laptop and did:
esdplay test.wav
Got nothing!
Ran alsamixer and unmuted, tried again: SUCCESS!
So, I installed esound-clients on the desktop, ran the following command:
esdplay -s laptop test.wav
SUCCESS!
Then I configured xmms on the desktop to use the eSound output and specified
the hostname of my laptop as the destination.
SUCCESS!!!
I haven't yet found how to use esddsp, which I believe I need to use xine or
whatever. I just get no noise at all and no error message - dagnabbit!
Cheers,
Peter
On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:06, TreeBoy wrote:
> Hi, again.
>
> Managed to get it working (sort of!).
>
> I have a desktop machine that sits in another room because the flashing
> lights and the noisy fans would not be allowed into the living room.
>
> I have a laptop that I use all the time connected to the desktop. I run X
> on the desktop and view it's contents on the laptop with the following
> command;
>
> X -query desktop :1
>
> I am not able to get to log in remotely using kdm.
>
> First of all, I had to install nas (the server package) on the laptop.
>
> Then I installed nas-bin (the client utils) on the desktop.
>
> I then had to change the /etc/default/nas file on the laptop to have the
> "-aa" option to allow unauthenticated connections.
>
> I was then able to run
>
> auinfo
>
> on the laptop's konsole and it said everything was fine.
>
> I was also able to execute the following on a remote konsole on the desktop
> (i.e. sat at the laptop in KDE on the desktop):
>
> auinfo -audio tcp/laptop:8000
>
> and get the results I needed.
>
> When I then execute:
>
> audial -audio tcp/laptop:8000 -volume 50 0123
>
> and get the tones come out of the laptop!!!
>
> Unfortunately, when I then tell KDE to use the NAS, I get segfaults - so it
> does not work.
>
> Next I'm going to look at ESD and then aRTS if that fails.
>
> Will let you know.
>
> Cheers,
> TreeBoy
>
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 00:46, Marty wrote:
> > TreeBoy wrote:
> > > Do you mean NAS (Network Audio System) which is available on Debian
> > > now.
> >
> > That seems to be something else. The slashdot discussion is about
> > X.org's MAS (media application server), and the posting links to this web
> > site:
> >
> > http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
> >
> > Since this is an X.org project, I suspect we have to wait until Debian
> > completes the transition from XFree86 to X.org.
> >
> > > I'm intending to try and sort this out for myself this very weekend.
> > >
> > > I'll post if you're interested.
> >
> > I would be interested. Thanks.
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > TreeBoy
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