I use ‘rdesktop’ from my Linux box to connect to a Windows machine. rdesktop can forward sound using the “-r sound” option, but it stopped working in Fedora 11, when PulseAudio made its appearance.
The reason is because:
- rdesktop uses the obsolete OSS sound device /dev/dsp
- Fedora/RedHat disables OSS sound support so that it doesn’t conflict with PulseAudio
The workaround, for now, is to, run this, as root:
sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss