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

Philip A. Chapman (spam-protected)
Sun Jul 15 15:04:11 HKT 2007 

I think that most recent via chipsets support AC97 as well as most of
your basic intel/amd boards, so that model alone would get many of the
latest boards.  ALSA seems to be where sound in linux is going, so I'd
concentrate more on that than oss.

That's my 2 cents.  Others may have other suggestions.

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 12:24 +0800, Punky Tse wrote:
> 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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