Hello, I want my Epia VIA board to act as a network appliance that produces music.
Using GNAP, I can make a disk image on a CF from which the board boots. Works out-of-the-box !! When I exchange the CF with a regular harddisk, I can install Gentoo with ALSA and it plays music (following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml). Now I want the board to boot from CF with ALSA enabled. I can see that during booting with the GNAP kernel, my sound interface is recognized. So I don't have to modify the kernel. Am I correct in assuming that the driver for my sound interface is compiled as module? So I guess that the 'only' thing I have to do is make an extension out of ALSA and use gnap_remaster to create a new, customized core. I have not used gnap_remaster before, but what I read from the manual, it should not be too hard. However, I have no clue of what files need to be included for ALSA... The ALSA guide emerges the 'alsa-utils'. It then uses 'alsaconf' (if the sound interface is a module) and adds a service to start at boot. It also uses 'alsamixer' to unmute the sound interface and set mixer values. How do I find out what files I need for the GNAP extension? Does anyone have experience in this area? Any help is greatly appreciated :-) Marcel Romijn -- [email protected] mailing list
