Sound Support Cygwin/X

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Loren H. Burlingame wrote:

> Gerhard Zweimüller wrote:
> > I am using a Linux box and connect to it my Windows XP
> > notebook as X-Server running Cygwin/X. I connect with
> > XDMCP and it all works fine. After login when KDE is
> > starting up I see a message that the /dev/dsp device
> > could not be initialised.
> 
> Firstly, I think that this is a permissions problem.
> Take a look at /dev/dsp and make sure that the user you log in as has 
> permissions to write to this device. This is usually done by adding the 
> user to the "audio" group or something similar
> 
> > 
> > Is it true, that Cygwin/X does not support sound
> > "forwarding"?
> > Are there any other solutions?
> > 
> 
> I have not gotten XDMCP working properly (you are further along than I 
> am) but I am fairly sure that if you can get esound or arts to "forward" 
> the sound you can figure out some way to get it through the XDMCP session.

With some magic you can configure esound to connect to the same machine 
as the xserver. 

The hostname is available from the DISPLAY variable. After stripping the 
trailing ":0.0" you can set the the variable for esound (I'm not sure
how it is called, i think ESD_SPEAKER or similar) to the hostname.

But I'm not sure if esound is available on windows. For availibility of 
arts you may ask the people from the kde-cygwin@kde.org list.

bye
	ago
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