Re: sound support more info

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Calvin Smith wrote:
> 
> I've finally got Mandrake 8.0 to work with XDMCP and can now login to
> Mandrake from Windows 2000.  However, when I run xmms it comes up plays an
> mp3 file and looks like it works but I get no sound from my Windows 2000
> speakers.  Is sound not working?
> I'm not sure what xwin.exe I'm running - is there a way to check that?
> It's dated 6/30/2001
> I'll try to get the latest version to see if that helps.

And appended

> I just got the latest xfree and it also fails to provide sound.  Note: sound 
> is played through the linux soundcard, just not through the windows 
> soundcard.

What did you expect? 

X11 is a protocol for transporting graphics over a network. For sound you'll
need  a sepearte protocol with a seperate deamon, eg. esd or arts.

Ralf, can you give some news on arts?

bye
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