On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 06:48 -0800, muzak24h wrote: > 3 reasons I am posting here: > - There are millions of DIY Linux firewalls running on light-kernels > (Smoothwall alone reports > million active installs) with no generic Sound > blaster support. > - Most users, even Linux CLI familiar like myself, will not trade security > to swap a kernel on a firewall and break the update mechanism that keeps > things secure. > - These millions of firewalls have CPU cycles to spare and sit around > waisting power and many users would like a way to do audio out. I have > posted over a year ago on the SW - UK forum and many are interested and > waiting. >
I don't understand - sound blaster is already supported by ALSA and OSS. If you are running a vendor kernel with no sound support you will have to install a kernel with audio support. There's no way to magically get sound without changing the kernel. > What is needed: > - PIC timer-based code (8259 chip?) to ouput wav direct to SB-out with CLI > parms to set generic SB volume, filename, and loop option. > > Perhaps I'm asking for too much? > - Maybe, even pointers in the right direction would help. In fact, if this > is easy... just post it in "homebrew mods" at smoothwall.org's community > forum. > - I will take positive responses here, and duely credit them - This is for > everyone! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/CLI-wanted---Need-PCM-to-generic-SBout-on-Smoothwall-2-stock-kernel-t1284975.html#a3416839 > Sent from the linux-audio-dev forum at Nabble.com. > >
