Category:Server administration
We spent a fair amount of time trying to set up an LTSP box recently for a small office. This was a new AMD-64 dual processor box. After messing around with Edubuntu 6.10 for AMD-64, we've decided to try the i386 version instead, mainly to get Flash working with sound on the remote clients.
Done:
- Install Edubuntu-amd64
- ltsp-build-client for i386
- Install firefox32 and upgrade
- Install flashplayer9 (no esd support)
- Name specific clients in attempt to get local device support working.
- Install NX Server-Free version (allows 2 users and 2 connections--go to small business server to get 10, or FreeNX)
- LTSP supports primarily ESD for sound. Flashplayer 9 does not support ESD, only ALSA.
- w32codecs switches Totem/other items to 32bit engine. 32bit sound appears to work on console, but not on clients.
- Clients register devices as they are plugged in, but do not appear to have them mounted. This is supposed to work, according to the Edubuntu release announcement.
- http://22eleven.com/archives/2006/11/29/nx-server-on-ubuntu-edgy-amd64/
- http://developer.berlios.de/projects/freenx/
- http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound
- though
- http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio Never heard of this... new sound system for Linux, with possibly better synch and support for LTSP?
- http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Edgy/HOWTO:_PulseAudio