Hi,
I setup a FreeNX server with a GNOME desktop, and I can access it from a client with the NoMachine client. Everything is running fine, and now I only have two problems left : audio and printing forwarding. I'll follow the "only-slay-one-dragon-at-a-time" rule and take care of audio first.
Did anyone manage to forward sound with FreeNX ? Here, server and client are using CentOS. And yes, I did check the little "enable multimedia" checkbox on the client, but to no avail. Whenever I play a sound in the client session, it comes out on the server speakers.
Any suggestions ?
Niki
I've had bad luck myself with sound - but using NoMachine... And, for me it only seems to work where sound is played for a Windows client machine to a NoMachine CentOS server. The only sound I can get is using XMMS... If I start a web browser (like Firefox), I do not hear anything if I go to Youtube or the like...
I'd love to know how to get sound working as well :)
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I setup a FreeNX server with a GNOME desktop, and I can access it from a client with the NoMachine client. Everything is running fine, and now I only have two problems left : audio and printing forwarding. I'll follow the "only-slay-one-dragon-at-a-time" rule and take care of audio first.
Did anyone manage to forward sound with FreeNX ? Here, server and client are using CentOS. And yes, I did check the little "enable multimedia" checkbox on the client, but to no avail. Whenever I play a sound in the client session, it comes out on the server speakers.
Any suggestions ?
Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Scot P. Floess a écrit :
I've had bad luck myself with sound - but using NoMachine... And, for me it only seems to work where sound is played for a Windows client machine to a NoMachine CentOS server. The only sound I can get is using XMMS... If I start a web browser (like Firefox), I do not hear anything if I go to Youtube or the like...
I'd love to know how to get sound working as well :)
I just managed to get it working. In GNOME, you have to select ESD instead of ALSA, then it works. And on the client sound, select the Enable Multimedia checkbox.
Cheers,
Niki
So, I was trying all this in KDE... From KMix, it shows that there are no sound cards at all... I think I tried system-config-soundcard - but that didn't work. Also, if I remember correctly I get an error in KDE about no sound card present...
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Scot P. Floess a écrit :
I've had bad luck myself with sound - but using NoMachine... And, for me it only seems to work where sound is played for a Windows client machine to a NoMachine CentOS server. The only sound I can get is using XMMS... If I start a web browser (like Firefox), I do not hear anything if I go to Youtube or the like...
I'd love to know how to get sound working as well :)
I just managed to get it working. In GNOME, you have to select ESD instead of ALSA, then it works. And on the client sound, select the Enable Multimedia checkbox.
Cheers,
Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Scot P. Floess a écrit :
So, I was trying all this in KDE... From KMix, it shows that there are no sound cards at all... I think I tried system-config-soundcard - but that didn't work. Also, if I remember correctly I get an error in KDE about no sound card present...
No sound on the server means no sound on the client either, unfortunately :o)
So, this machine does have a sound card (not sure that matters). I used a different machine (no sound card) and was able to use XMMS and KDE - but not anything emitted from a Web browser.
Again, the CentOS machine does have a sound card - so sound works locally - but not over NoMachine.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Scot P. Floess a écrit :
So, I was trying all this in KDE... From KMix, it shows that there are no sound cards at all... I think I tried system-config-soundcard - but that didn't work. Also, if I remember correctly I get an error in KDE about no sound card present...
No sound on the server means no sound on the client either, unfortunately :o)
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I should say that the KDE machine - was running Fedora 12 with no sound card whatsoever. Again, XMMS worked from the Fedora box back to a Windoze NoMachine client. It didn't work to a Linux client (Fedora nor CentOS) that did have a sound card.
In both cases, the client machine didn't work when a web browser was involved - for example watching Youtube videos.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Scot P. Floess wrote:
So, this machine does have a sound card (not sure that matters). I used a different machine (no sound card) and was able to use XMMS and KDE - but not anything emitted from a Web browser.
Again, the CentOS machine does have a sound card - so sound works locally - but not over NoMachine.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Scot P. Floess a écrit :
So, I was trying all this in KDE... From KMix, it shows that there are no sound cards at all... I think I tried system-config-soundcard - but that didn't work. Also, if I remember correctly I get an error in KDE about no sound card present...
No sound on the server means no sound on the client either, unfortunately :o)
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:21 PM, "Scot P. Floess" sfloess@nc.rr.com wrote:
I should say that the KDE machine - was running Fedora 12 with no sound card whatsoever. Again, XMMS worked from the Fedora box back to a Windoze NoMachine client. It didn't work to a Linux client (Fedora nor CentOS) that did have a sound card.
In both cases, the client machine didn't work when a web browser was involved - for example watching Youtube videos.
You don't need a soundcard on the server if setup with a dummy ALSA device.
You do need ESD or pulseaudio setup properly on the server/client as well I believe for NX to work.
Why Flash doesn't come over by default is because it uses OSS instead of ALSA, so in order to get that working you need the ALSA OSS emulator installed on the server.
Don't ask me how to do it, I am trying to forget even having tried it and when it was working quality was terrible and control was touchy.
Your definitely better using Fedora for the server here as sound support in CentOS stinks, but then again I don't use it for sound and video support.
Google Flash and ALSA and prepare to go down a rat hole on this.
-Ross
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