[Fwd: Re: [Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Sound Support]
Philip A. Chapman
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Mon Jul 16 22:07:06 HKT 2007
Thanks!
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:59 +0800, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sound support in kernel should be available by tomorrow daily build. So
> far, it adds 1MB more to the distro uncompressed...
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
>
> Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> > 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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Philip A. Chapman
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