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

[Punky Tse]

Hi all,

I appreciate this constructive suggestion, what I need to know now is 
further instruction on what kernel modules should be enabled.  There are 
two sound system drivers: ALAS and OSS.  And what other sound drivers 
should I enable?  What I think of is to enable VIA-based, CS5536 audio 
and the most common SoundBlaster driver.

Regards,
Punky


Mike O'Connor wrote:
> 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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>>>>>           
>>>> --
>>>> Philip A. Chapman
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