Re: [K12OSN] sound works in most apps not netscape or win4lin
Larry Eppley (rlarrye@attglobal.net)
Sat, 5 Oct 2002 13:50:27 -0400
Paul,
This may be related to the macromedia problem, but the RedHat 8.0 movie (on
the RH site) runs for me in k12lstp. However, I do not have any sound.
I used the build of Mozilla in "your" distro.
Of course it works fine on my "stand-alone machine"
larry eppley
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:04 pm, Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Mike Thostenson wrote:
> >I have the latest k12ltsp that is based on redhat 7.3 and everything is
> >working pretty good except:
> >
> >sound works for tuxmath and xmms from the terminals but I cannot get
> >sound to work with any of the internet browsers like netscape from the
> >terminals. Sound works for everything on the server though.
> >
> >I am stummped...please help.
>
> I spent a few minutes looking at browsers & sound the other day. I don't
> have a terminal w/sound to test on at the moment, so please consider my
> observations to be "academic" ;-)
>
> Mozilla should work fine. It deals with the LD_PRELOAD magic that makes
> remote sound work.
>
> Netscape looks like it drops the LD_PRELOAD environment variable in some
> cases. Try adding this line to the top of /usr/bin/netscape
>
> NS_LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD"
>
> As far as I can tell, that should make sound work from Netscape. If it
> breaks Netscape, remove that line ;-)
>
> Note that plugins *may* behave differently than the browser itself. I
> didn't check this at all.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> for those of you who are curious how I determined that the LD_PRELOAD was
> working without a sound card, I used the "lsof" utility which shows which
> files are open. I could see if Netscape had openned the libesd library, for
> example, with this command:
>
> lsof | grep netscape | grep libesd
>
>
>
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