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### XDMCP and sound redirection

clarjon1 [clarjon1 at gmail.com]

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:57:54 -0500

Hello, all. Anyone know how to redirect the sound when in a remote X session vie XDMCP? I don't mean telling the sound server where to send the sound, I mean have it redirect the /dev/dsp0 back to the computer that is being used.

Thanks, let me know if you need more info, I'd include more, but I'm short on time right now. Sorry.

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=?iso-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9?= Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:35:45 +0100

On Feb 26, 2007 at 1257 -0500, clarjon1 appeared and said:

    > Hello, all.  Anyone know how to redirect the sound when in a remote X
    > session vie XDMCP?  I don't mean telling the sound server where to
    > send the sound, I mean have it redirect the /dev/dsp0 back to the
    > computer that is being used.

I doubt that you can do that with XDMCP, and I don't think that redirecting /dev/dsp0 will be simple. Back in the good old days when I was using the Enlightenment window manager there was the Enlightened Sound Daemon (EsounD, http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html), that could relay sound playback to machines via the network. EsounD development has stopped in 2000.

Other ways to accomplish this may be http://pulseaudio.org/, the aRts project (http://www.arts-project.org/) or http://jackaudio.org/ (the latter site lacks its database server and may not produce any content).

Best, RenÃ©

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