LTSP | Sound problem fixed

Further to my recent post, it transpired that rdesktop uses /dev/dsp which is incompatible with alsa. Specifying “oss” as the sound driver, instead of the default, worked fine.

$ padsp rdesktop -r sound:local:oss 192.168.0.1

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LTSP | Sound in rdesktop sessions

Today I discovered that since our upgrade to LTSP5, sound has stopped working in rdesktop sessions. Worse, it bombs users out of their Windows session with the error:

rdesktop: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted

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