[mythtv-users] Diskless frontends?

Tim Litwiller tim at litwiller.net
Wed Jun 9 09:57:31 EDT 2004


We are using this is a private school with 16 terminals and they all 
have local (at the terminal sound).

It just doesn't work in Kde.  But it works fine in gnome and icewm.

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> On Jun 8, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Tim Litwiller wrote:
>
>> If you want an easy to setup ltsp server based on fedora core 1, get 
>> k12ltsp - then start configuring from there to make a diskless myth 
>> client.
>> http://k12ltsp.org/
>
>
> That still doesn't fix the sound issue for remote X sessions, while 
> nomachine might... But yes, that's a good starting point. Red Hat's 
> own redhat-config-netboot (or system-config-netboot on Fedora) also 
> works quite well.
>
>
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:44, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:59, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For Myth to
>>>>> properly function (i.e., if you want sound), you have to run
>>>>> everything client-side.
>>>>>
>>>> Ever check this out?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nomachine.com/
>>>>
>>>> I've always wanted to delve into this, but haven't had the time.  
>>>> Aside
>>>> from an interesting & efficient method of proxying X protocol, they
>>>> also support network-transparent sound of some sort.  Their white
>>>> paper(s) are interesting reads.
>>>
>>>
>>> Its been a while, but I did look at that some time back. I'd 
>>> forgotten about it. Forwarding sound does seem to be about the only 
>>> thing missing for running remote X Myth sessions, which could also 
>>> theoretically work with Cygwin's X client and Mac OS X's X11...
>>
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