[mythtv-users] Diskless frontends?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 18:15, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 June 2004 06:57, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Oh really? Cool! Good to know... I'm a KDE guy, but I may have to try
> that out... Any idea of whether it works with xfce4? And do you know
> if that works only in an all-Linux environment, or does it also work
> to a remote X session w/Cygwin or Apple's X11?


I'm still skeptical as to whether this would work for Myth... presumably 
it works for GNOME apps because GNOME built it into their sound daemon 
architecture (esound?).   Any app that doesn't use the GNOME sound 
daemon, but instead accesses /dev/dsp directly (like Myth), would 
probably still have no sound on the remote terminal.  I'd guess KDE/
artsd suffers from this problem.

But I'd love to be proven wrong!

-JAC


>
> > 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...