After I switched my laptop to Ubuntu, I can only here silence. That's motivation to find interim solution until sound driver being improved. The first solution is to buy a USB sound card. Not too bad but I have to bring this new gadget everywhere I go. In addition, I have to paid for it. Luckily, it is Ubuntu. EsounD is a sound server software which is available on many platform including Lnux, Mac OS X and Windows. Ubuntu does support EsounD and it is installed by default. So, I just need to redirect all sound sent to EsounD to other EsounD on remote server. Sound good! How to do it?

EsounD offers this functionality by little tools esdmon and esdcat. In Ubuntu you have to "sudo apt-get install esound-clients" to have these two commands. To run Esound, I have to run additional EsounD command on both machines. Since remote machine is Mac OS X, I have to install EsounD on them using "sudo fink install esound". On server, I run "esd -tcp -public -romiscuous -nobeeps -noterminate -as 10". On my laptop, just run "esdmon | esdcat -s 192.168.1.10" where 192.168.1.10 is the server IP address. Well done. I can hear sound through speaker on Mac OS X while video is playing on Ubuntu.

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