On Friday 17 November 2006 10:26, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Carla Schroder brought up a good point - AstLinux cannot talk to sound > cards! > > I have used aplay to pipe in MOH from Line-In, etc sources before and > that has worked well. I just have never had to do it on AstLinux. > Today Carla was trying to figure out how to get chan_oss/chan_alsa to > work. No go. I decided to do something about it. The Gumstix > buildroot included makefiles for alsa-lib and alsa-util. All I had to > do with bump the version, tweak the makefiles, and update a couple of > patches. Big thanks to Craig and the everyone else in the Gumstix > community. Sharing is caring :)! This support has been included in > trunk, and should work for any of the AstLinux target > architectures/devices. > > I have not yet updated the kernel configs to support ALSA hardware. > I'm pretty out of touch with what sound hardware people have out there > these days. Which modules should I include? > > I'm thinking the various USB sound adapters and the VIA stuff that is > included on the mini-itx boards. What other sound adapters would you > like to see supported in AstLinux? >
Wow, that's some customer service. Let me think of other things to ask for.... :) VIA AC97 is one of the most common sound chipsets, if not the most common. At least for cheapskate systems like mine with onboard everything. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
