Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Xvnc remote to audio box...
From: Russell Hanaghan (hanaghan_AT_starband.net)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 19:14:00 EEST
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:45, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:07, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > Russell Hanaghan hat gesagt: // Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> >
> > > I want to use this box live without mouse, monitor or keyboard. I'm
> > > running MDK 10.0, 2.6.5 Kernel. I want to boot it anf log into it with
> > > VNC or similar from my Win XP laptop probably using 100MB lan cards on
> > > both.
> > >
> > > I have VNC setup to fire up on boot. I can get a login on screen " :1 "
> > > but when I try to run Jack, it seems not to see the alsa drivers
> > > correctly. Is it because other X server desktops don't have the machine
> > > privileges that the default 0 screen has? I have everything working fine
> > > on a regular login on the local box...
> >
> > This shouldn't happen: Jack doesn't use any X features, let alone
> > anyone, not available on VNC. I successfully started Jack even over an
> > SSH shell connection. Could you give a more verbose Jack error
> > message? (That is: any at all ;)
>
> Figured out that I had some "other" problems with alsa, jack, etc. I can
> get this to produce sound now.
>
> But in the same conversation...I have vnc starting on boot as Display
> :1. I notice following that leaves it a tad short of what I think I
> need...
>
> 1/ If I don't let display :0 log in, it seems alsa is not initialized,
> or at the least is not available to display :1
>
> 2/ Can log as root (su root) in a shell but cant seem to run anything
> from it. Qjackctl claims "segmentation fault" Konqueror and kwrite claim
> some kind of crash. I know there are security issues that are in place
> for the likes of this. What can be done to eliminate them if anything?
Anyone??
>
> thanks
> >
> > Ciao
>
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