Sound through FreeNX

Running FreeNX (0.4.4-4, distributed with SuSE 10) and connecting to it from
a Windows XP client via the standard NX (No Machine) windows client.

Almost everything works really well. It is MUCH faster than any of the VNC
implimentations. Even over slow connections is feels very nice, over
broadband it is very close to feeling as if I am on the server locally...
and I don't have to sacrifice any color/graphical quality.

However, I have one problem that is sort of messing things up for me:

Sound. Sound is supported via ESD, and it does sort of work.

KDE System Notifications: Does not work at all.

Other sounds: Works but slows NX down to a crawl and is VERY choppy
sounding. This doesn't appear to be a bandwith issue as the bandwith usage
doesn't spike anywhere near the limitation and it happens even with tiny
files. Also, I can stream (via amaroK script) MP3s without any quality
issues.

I'd be very grateful to anyone with some insight to this problem.

Also, I did enable the following lines in /etc/nxserver/node.conf:

ENABLE_ESD_PRELOAD="1"
ESD_BIN_PRELOAD="esddsp"

Thanks in advance,

Dave M

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Dave M wrote:

<snip>

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave M

Ahh well, guess I am the only FreeNX user, heh.

--Dave M

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:09:16 GMT
Dave M <dave@landlordhat.com> wrote:

> Ahh well, guess I am the only FreeNX user, heh.
>
> --Dave M

Kinda looks that way, doesn't it? :-) Have you tried joining the
mailing list from their development section on their home page?:

http://freenx.berlios.de/

That might be your best bet -- and the developers usually appreciate
this sort of feedback, especially if they don't use the distro you are
using . . .


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Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Novell Support Forums Volunteer SysOp
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Kevin Nathan wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:09:16 GMT
> Dave M <dave@landlordhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Ahh well, guess I am the only FreeNX user, heh.
>>
>> --Dave M
>
> Kinda looks that way, doesn't it? :-) Have you tried joining the
> mailing list from their development section on their home page?:
>
> http://freenx.berlios.de/
>
> That might be your best bet -- and the developers usually appreciate
> this sort of feedback, especially if they don't use the distro you are
> using . . .
>
>

Thanks for the suggestion, guess that is where I'll head. I get irritated
easily with mailing lists for some reason, hah. :-P

Thanks,

Dave M