[Fwd: Re: [Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Sound Support]

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi Philip

I was agreeing with you, Voyage can be used for many different things
very easily.

As to adding sound support by default that could be done by having a
couple of different kernels compiled for different jobs. ie networking
only, mobile pc, etc

The only issues is that it increase the workload for Punky, when
compiling a kernel is one of the easies things to do.

Punky needs too decided if he wants to take Voyage in that direction.

Mike


Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I appologize for the misunderstanding.  Reading "Sound support on Voyage
> Linux? Why?" in the email you sent seemed to suggest to me that you
> found little value in the concept of sound support on a voyage
> installation.  I was not trying to be caustic.  I was trying to suggest
> that there are a world of possibilities that can be explored with Voyage
> Linux.  If not yourself, perhaps there are others that have not
> considered them; and they will be helped be these emails.
>
> If a way could be made to customize the kernel when building a Voyage
> install, similar to customizing software packages, we'd really be on to
> something.  Do you need sound support?  Yes, great!  We'll include it.
> No, OK!  We'll keep that space available for something important for
> this install.
>
> Also, the original poster had also come to the conclusion that he should
> compile the kernel and include sound support, but was having trouble
> doing so.  Hopefully between your suggestion that alsalibs was
> necessary, and my suggestion of using qemu to set up a dev environment
> helped him get it working.
>
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 10:10 +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> Hi Philip
>>
>> I have never limited my self to just using Voyage for networking. I have
>> version build for mythtv, util-vservers, industrial control, static
>> image auditing, etc (at least another 10 applications)
>>
>> I have always just build my own kernel to support the features needed.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Philip A. Chapman wrote:
>>     
>>> Forwarding to the list because I forgot to reply to all.
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> From: Philip A. Chapman <pchapman at pcsw.us>
>>> To: Giovanni Di Stasi <gdistasi at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Sound Support
>>> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:51:13 -0500
>>>
>>> Why?  Why not?
>>>
>>> I have a via based device which runs voyage linux from a 64MB flash
>>> drive.  It's sole purpose is to live beside the stereo and play
>>> streaming music.  Why use a larger distrobution?  Voyage is small enough
>>> to fit on the 64MB... cheap and low power.  Also, mounting the flash ro
>>> makes the system impervious to power outages.  If the power goes out, it
>>> just boots back up and continues on.  Why put a ups on a music device?
>>> Since voyage is based on debian, I could apt-get all the tools I needed
>>> to specialize my install for what I wanted.
>>>
>>> I know that most of you (it seems from the emails I've seen on the list)
>>> use voyage for networking routers and such; but why limit your
>>> imagination to just that? It could be used for in-car computers,
>>> robotics, who knows what else.  Man, do I love open source!
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 23:02 +0200, Giovanni Di Stasi wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On Thursday 12 July 2007 22:29:44 Gustavo Samour wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,I'm using Voyage version 0.3.1 on Nohrtec's Microclient Jr. I don't have
>>>>> sound and I read somewhere that the Voyage kernel is compiled WITHOUT sound
>>>>> support by default. Is this true? If so, where can I download an iso WITH
>>>>> sound support? Another way to go is to compile the same kernel with sound
>>>>> support, but for some reason, I get an error while compiling the 2.6.15
>>>>> kernel. This doesn't happen with newer kernels (which version of the kernel
>>>>> comes with Voyage 0.4.0?). Could anyone please point me in the right
>>>>> direction? Thanks in advance.Gustavo
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Sound support on Voyage Linux? Why?
>>>>
>>>> However, you have to recompile the kernel and install alsalib.
>>>> Bye bye
>>>>
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