XRDP and audio

[apti2d]

I'm running XRDP on an 8th gen Intel Dell Latitude 7290 laptop, with XFCE desktop and kernel 5.19

Anyone have a fairly straightforward process on how to get audio to load after successfully logging into the remote desktop?

TIA

[CharlesV]

Please post your QSI. ( MX Menu, Quick System Info, Copy for Forum, Paste here )

[apti2d]

Please post your QSI. ( MX Menu, Quick System Info, Copy for Forum, Paste here )

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System:    Kernel: 5.19.0-2mx-amd64 [5.19.11-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.0-2mx-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_ahs_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 7290 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.38.0 date: 04/02/2024 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 60.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 60.0/60.0 Wh (100.0%) volts: 8.7 
           min: 7.6 model: SMP DELL DW3WC64 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8350U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) microcode: F6 cache: 
           L2: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 30399 
           Speed: 1900 MHz min/max: 400/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 1900 3: 1900 4: 1900 
           5: 800 6: 1900 7: 800 8: 1900 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 1bcf:2b96 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :10.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3") 
           s-diag: 583mm (23") 
           Monitor-1: rdp0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 50 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-2mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15d7 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: f040 
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 
           sub-v: 100 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 100 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 
           port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 21 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 253.21 GiB used: 47.3 GiB (18.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 maj-min: 179:0 model: SD size: 14.74 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: GPT 
           SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data. 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: SC313 SATA 256GB size: 238.47 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 1P10 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 230.22 GiB size: 225.54 GiB (97.97%) used: 47.3 GiB (21.0%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 
           maj-min: 8:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 32.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1970 lib: 932 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ bullseye main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://atl.mirrors.clouvider.net/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://atl.mirrors.clouvider.net/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex-mx.list 
           1: deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main
Info:      Processes: 272 Uptime: 5h 45m wakeups: 3 Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 1.59 GiB (20.8%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[CharlesV]

Some suggestions...

First, you are on an older MX version and may not get much help with this.

Second, there are some utilities in the repo's that might help you.
- MX Select sound will help you choose a sound controller choice and you may find that is the issue.
- Indicator-Sound-Switcher (on both machines), might provide some insight as to how to change to "the other sound".
- Pulse Volume control - Configuration Tab and or Input / Output tabs may hold a clue as to where the sound might be going when your not hearing. (And the ability to redirect it properly.)

I have not had good luck with xrdp in general, there are some decent looking links on a search, but what I have found for me is the following:
a) NoMachine - I use this on ALL machines in my network to move around and it does carry sound well!
b) AnyDesk - if your going off network, then this is a great remote (Sound can be a little tricky, but there are some articles here where we dealt with it and got if working - Mine seem to just work.)
c) Remmina - I have successfully used Remmina to remote to many machines, usually Windows RDP, but it works and I have had no issues with sound on it.

If your going off network, then I would suggest using using a VPN to bring both machines into your Virtual Private Network and then you can use NoMachine with out an issue as well.

And no, not the VPN most people think of, I use ZeroTier or VPN.net ( hamachi ) or OpenVPN to create Peer-to-Peer true VPN's.

[apti2d]

Some suggestions...

First, you are on an older MX version and may not get much help with this.

Second, there are some utilities in the repo's that might help you.
- MX Select sound will help you choose a sound controller choice and you may find that is the issue.
- Indicator-Sound-Switcher (on both machines), might provide some insight as to how to change to "the other sound".
- Pulse Volume control - Configuration Tab and or Input / Output tabs may hold a clue as to where the sound might be going when your not hearing. (And the ability to redirect it properly.)

I have not had good luck with xrdp in general, there are some decent looking links on a search, but what I have found for me is the following:
a) NoMachine - I use this on ALL machines in my network to move around and it does carry sound well!
b) AnyDesk - if your going off network, then this is a great remote (Sound can be a little tricky, but there are some articles here where we dealt with it and got if working - Mine seem to just work.)
c) Remmina - I have successfully used Remmina to remote to many machines, usually Windows RDP, but it works and I have had no issues with sound on it.

If your going off network, then I would suggest using using a VPN to bring both machines into your Virtual Private Network and then you can use NoMachine with out an issue as well.

And no, not the VPN most people think of, I use ZeroTier or VPN.net ( hamachi ) or OpenVPN to create Peer-to-Peer true VPN's.

Thanks for the response.

The version of MX, and kernel, BY FAR, work best for that laptop.

I may just go to bluetooth audio for the less invasive solve, since I'm limited on the Client side.

Thanks again.

[DeepDayze]

Some suggestions...

First, you are on an older MX version and may not get much help with this.

Second, there are some utilities in the repo's that might help you.
- MX Select sound will help you choose a sound controller choice and you may find that is the issue.
- Indicator-Sound-Switcher (on both machines), might provide some insight as to how to change to "the other sound".
- Pulse Volume control - Configuration Tab and or Input / Output tabs may hold a clue as to where the sound might be going when your not hearing. (And the ability to redirect it properly.)

I have not had good luck with xrdp in general, there are some decent looking links on a search, but what I have found for me is the following:
a) NoMachine - I use this on ALL machines in my network to move around and it does carry sound well!
b) AnyDesk - if your going off network, then this is a great remote (Sound can be a little tricky, but there are some articles here where we dealt with it and got if working - Mine seem to just work.)
c) Remmina - I have successfully used Remmina to remote to many machines, usually Windows RDP, but it works and I have had no issues with sound on it.

If your going off network, then I would suggest using using a VPN to bring both machines into your Virtual Private Network and then you can use NoMachine with out an issue as well.

And no, not the VPN most people think of, I use ZeroTier or VPN.net ( hamachi ) or OpenVPN to create Peer-to-Peer true VPN's.

Thanks for the response.

The version of MX, and kernel, BY FAR, work best for that laptop.

I may just go to bluetooth audio for the less invasive solve, since I'm limited on the Client side.

Thanks again.

Have you tried MX23 from USB to see if it works for your system? I believe MX21 will be going EOL next year so you might not then get updates.