On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:17:13PM -0500, traxlend@cs.purdue.edu wrote: > One thing I'm curious about though: Can you forward sound through an > X session? I think W-----s XP can send the sound through their cheap-ass > "new, incredible remote desktop," and I hate seeing them do something > we can't in an area where they're otherwise completely outclassed. AFAIK, there are a number of different ways of doing this (all packaged up for Debian, no less): * Network Audio System(NAS) is, IIRC, the Sun way of doing remote sound. Seems to be older than the others, never used it. Enlightened Sound * Daemon (ESD). Fairly modern, well-supported by GNOME, and can work with most everything using esddsp. * Artsd is the default sound daemon for KDE. I think there's also a program analogous to esddsp for it. I'm fairly sure it also supports network use. * ASD I've never heard of before, but it claims to be working on a superset of esd's features, which presumably includes network support. AFAIK, all these rely on you running a daemon on your X server (the box in front of you), so they won't work with things like labtam's or SunRays. However, they certainly do sound like they can handle simple sound-forwarding as well as WinXP does. Of course, this being Debian, the biggest issue will be deciding which one to use;) -rob
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