Bug#561996: audacity fail to work on thin clients using LTSP

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.5-2+lenny1
Severity: important
User: debian-edu at lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu

We ran into this issue with Debian Edu, where we are working on making
the Lenny based release these days.

Running audacity via an LTSP client fail to give working sound by
default.  LTSP support ESD and pulseaudio, neither which seem to be
working with audacity.  I looked for a global configuration file I
could use to change the default for all users, but failed to find any.
Is there some environment variable we can set to enable ESD,
pulseaudio or ALSA (which can be configured to use pulseaudio)?

It is possible to get it working using padsp, but then the desktop
file for audacity need to be changed to get it working for all users,
and that is not really an option when we want Debian Edu to work in a
policy compliant way.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  libasound2         1.0.16-2              ALSA library
ii  libc6              2.7-18                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-4+lenny2        XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac++6         1.2.1-1.2             Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8           1.2.1-1.2             Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1            1:4.3.2-1.1           GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.16.6-2              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.12.12-1~lenny1      The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libid3tag0         0.15.1b-10            ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0           0.109.2-5             JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0            0.15.1b-4             MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0            1.1.3-4               Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsndfile1        1.0.17-4+lenny2       Library for reading/writing audio
ii  libsoundtouch1c2   1.3.1-2               sound stretching library
ii  libstdc++6         4.3.2-1.1             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a        1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2      1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3     1.2.0.dfsg-3.1+lenny1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxbase2.6-0     2.6.3.2.2-3+lenny1    wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0      2.6.3.2.2-3+lenny1    wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
ii  ladspa-sdk [ladspa-plugin]    1.1-6      sample tools for linux-audio-dev p
ii  mcp-plugins [ladspa-plugin]   0.3.0-4    LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa M
ii  swh-plugins [ladspa-plugin]   0.4.15-0.2 Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins

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Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen