rdesktop is client for MS terminal server. It is supposed to be able to map sounds from server to client. However even with alsa USE flag, ebuild do not pass --enable-audio flag (i guessed name of the flag) during compilation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge rdesktop 2. rdesktop -r sound:local server.aloha.com 3. Actual Results: Rdesktop say: WARNING: Not compiled with sound support Expected Results: Rdesktop should say... Jaj... lets rock`n`roll
What version of rdesktop are you trying? Please post the output of your emerge info.
Ehh... actually... This is completely invalid... ~/tmp/rdesktop-1.4.1 $ ./configure --help `configure' configures rdesktop 1.4.1 to adapt to many kinds of systems. Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... To assign environment variables (e.g., CC, CFLAGS...), specify them as VAR=VALUE. See below for descriptions of some of the useful variables. Defaults for the options are specified in brackets. Configuration: -h, --help display this help and exit --help=short display options specific to this package --help=recursive display the short help of all the included packages -V, --version display version information and exit -q, --quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages --cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE [disabled] -C, --config-cache alias for `--cache-file=config.cache' -n, --no-create do not create output files --srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or `..'] Installation directories: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX [/usr/local] --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX [PREFIX] By default, `make install' will install all the files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix', for instance `--prefix=$HOME'. For better control, use the options below. Fine tuning of the installation directories: --bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin] --sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin] --libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec] --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share] --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] --sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com] --localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var] --libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib] --includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include] --oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include] --infodir=DIR info documentation [PREFIX/info] --mandir=DIR man documentation [PREFIX/man] X features: --x-includes=DIR X include files are in DIR --x-libraries=DIR X library files are in DIR System types: --build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [guessed] --host=HOST cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD] Optional Features: --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no) --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] --enable-static-openssl link OpenSSL statically Optional Packages: --with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes] --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no) --with-x use the X Window System --with-openssl=DIR look for OpenSSL at DIR/include, DIR/lib --with-egd-socket=PATH look for Entropy Gathering Daemon socket at PATH --with-libvncserver-config=CMD use CMD as libvncserver-config --with-libvncserver make rdp2vnc --with-libao=DIR look for libao at DIR/include, DIR/lib --with-sound select sound system ("oss", "sgi", "sun" or "libao") --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR search for libiconv in DIR/include and DIR/lib --with-ipv6 enable IPv6-support --with-debug enable protocol debugging output --with-debug-kbd enable debugging of keyboard handling --with-debug-rdp5 enable debugging of RDP5 code --with-debug-clipboard enable debugging of clipboard code Some influential environment variables: CC C compiler command CFLAGS C compiler flags LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory <lib dir> CPPFLAGS C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir> CPP C preprocessor Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help it to find libraries and programs with nonstandard names/locations. There is not --enable-audio *in* rdesktop, at least not in portage. Also, there's no use of the alsa USE flag in the ebuild, anyway. It uses oss since rdesktop only works with oss sound.
so my rdesktop version is 1.4.1 on amd64 2005.1 profile. From your post i would guess, that config option is --with-sound And yes i do expect, that things will merge with OSS support, while we can use OSS emulation in ALSA, at least untill there will be native ALSA support by rdesktop Btw.: that text in () behind --enable-audio.. ( i guessed name of the flag) realy mean, that i have no clue, whats the name of the flag.
You'll have to excuse me, but what you just wrote made exactly zero sense to me. At any rate, you never posted your "emerge info" so I can't possibly help you. I can tell you that it builds with sound support perfectly fine, as I use it daily. I would be willing to bet that the issue you're experiencing is a configuration issue of ALSA for OSS emulation.
