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 -- BOFH excuse #53: Little hamster in running wheel had coronary; waiting for replacement to be Fedexed from Wyoming -- BOFH excuse #260: We're upgrading /dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
