{"id":623,"date":"2010-09-06T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T04:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2010-09-06T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T04:21:45","slug":"linux-rdesktop-sound-and-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/linux-rdesktop-sound-and-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux rdesktop, sound and Fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use &#8216;rdesktop&#8217; from my Linux box to connect to a Windows machine. rdesktop can forward sound using the &#8220;-r sound&#8221; option, but it <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=503431\">stopped working in Fedora 11<\/a>, when PulseAudio made its appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>rdesktop uses the obsolete OSS sound device \/dev\/dsp<\/li>\n<li>Fedora\/RedHat disables OSS sound support so that it doesn&#8217;t conflict with PulseAudio<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The workaround, for now, is to, run this, as root:<\/p>\n<p><code>  sudo modprobe snd-pcm-oss<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use &#8216;rdesktop&#8217; from my Linux box to connect to a Windows machine. rdesktop can forward sound using the &#8220;-r sound&#8221; 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&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/linux-rdesktop-sound-and-fedora\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux rdesktop, sound and Fedora&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}