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Distribution: Slackware 14.2 soon to be Slackware 15
Posts: 699
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Xrdp - no audio. Dummy Output is only device.
I'm running xrdp on a Slackware 15 box. I can rdp into the box with ease. works great. However, there is no audio output. If I look at pulse volume applet, the only output device is "Dummy Output". If I play an audio file, the level bar on Dummy Output responds, so apparently audio is being routed to this Dummy Output.
So my question is - how does one route this dummy output to physical audio device, or otherwise get audio to work? In this case, I don't care much if it comes out of the box itself, or gets piped to the box I'm using to remote in though I'd prefer if it came out of the physical box.
I did. Now I have an output device "xrdp output (plugged in), but I still don't get any audio. If I ssh into the box and play an audio file it works, but playing it from the xrdp session does not.
On the xrdp session I see playback volume meter moving. The output device xrdp output also shows volume meter moving. Nothing comes out of speakers on either box.
Edit: ls $(pkg-config --variable=modlibexecdir libpulse) | grep xrdp gives:
After a lot of trail and mostly err with pulseaudio I kept on digging, then I found that distro's and XRDP have been moving on to the pipewire audio system.
As soon as I did that too , and after installing compiling and installing the drivers for pipewire, everything worked as a charm.
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