ok some progress, I changed the plugin for xmms to esd and now thats working :-) As for totem, looks like a problem with totem-xine
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy totem-gstreamer totem-xine totem-gstreamer: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status totem-xine: Installed: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.16.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status When I installed totem-gstreamer sound worked on on the client. To be certain I tried totem-xine again and the sound went back to the server. So it looks like totem-xine has a problem with ESPEAKER. There is already a bug filed for sound on gcompris: bug report 69074 I left a note there to confirm the problem. Thanks for the help on this. Ill keep testing also. rob -- Sound coming out of server instead of terminal in ltsp edubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/73346 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs