[FreeNX-kNX] How can I get sound on a client when the server has no soundcard

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Freerk Kalsbeek wrote:
> 
> Hi listusers,
> 
> I've recently setup freenx on my CentOS 5 server. Everything works like a
> charm except sound support is not working at all.
> When logging in on KDE I get an error complaining that /dev/dsp does not
> exist. This is true because there is no soundcard in the server.
> 
> Is it possible to use sound on a terminal session when there is no
> soundcard
> in the server?
> Can I have something like a fake /dev/dsp?
> 
> Anyone who has experience with this?
> 
> To be complete I use the Linux NX client on Ubuntu 8.04 and have
> configured
> multimedia to be enabled.
> In the node.conf file I now have both preloading of arts and esd enabled.
> 
> Already tried using the snd-dummy kernel module, but that didn't help
> either.
> 

Try to add snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss.

I have added a "esd-sound.modules" to /etc/sysconfig/modules/ to load dummy
sound while booting:
<esd-sound.modules>
for i in snd-dummy snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss;do
        modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1
done
</esd-sound.modules>

Johannes P.
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