15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
1:20 p.m.
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!
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