I'm using rplay for local sound on a hacked up Iopener and using LTSP.
If you want details on the setup, check here:

http://home.centurytel.net/stewb/io_sound.html

Should work on a conventional machine too.

Stew Benedict

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Andy Schuler wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > We're doing something interesting here at ErnieBall Inc., (we
> > manufacture guitars and guitar accessories) we're getting rid of every
> > single Micro$oft product we own. We have about 100 users on our network
> > so this has proven to be a daunting task...but very interesting. We have
> > a central X server running RedHat 7.0 and all the client machines pull
> > an X session from that machine (or will when we are finished). This
> > configuration has it's obvious advantages but has also presented us with
> > some challenges. Here are a couple, maybe all you gurus have some ideas
> > for me.
> >
> > 1) We'd like to be able to setup sound on some of the local machines
> > while still logging into an X session on the server.
> 
> Esound may be able to do this for you.  I have not kept up on it, but it
> is susposed to enable using your local sound card by network
> applications.  Something to look into.
> 
> > 2) We'd like to have some instant messaging system where the root user
> > can send system messages to all the users via their X session.
> >
> Run something like xcolsole, tied to a named pipe for each secession.
> Then a small script that writes a message to each named pipe.  Or you
> could adapt something like kpopup that is set to pop up a message when
> used with samba.  Basicly, you pop up a window on their desktop with the
> message.
> 
> > 3)We're using StarOffice and have been pleased with everything except
> > it's database system, anybody know of anything that would a satisfactory
> > replacement for Acce$$?
> 
> Cann't help here - I don't use access.
> 
> > 4) There's probably a bunch of other things we'll run into so I'll post
> > them as they come up! =)
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> >
> > Andy Schuler
> > IT Dept. ErnieBall Inc.
> > www.ernieball.com
> >
> Keep us posted on how it goes.  If you deside to add some diskless
> workstations, you may want to look into the Linux Terminal Server
> project.
> 
> Mikkel
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