Hey Matt speaking of Kernels, what's the difference between kernel 2.4 and 2.6? Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Campbell" <mattc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 1:22 AM Subject: Re: FreedomBox ot? > Well, FreedomBox doesn't require ALSA. I've tested it with the emu10k1 > OSS driver that comes with kernel version 2.4.22; I haven't tried a 2.6 > kernel yet. And on my 266 MHz machine I used the cs4231 OSS driver that > comes with the kernel. > > To narrow down the problem, try the following. First, start usound > manually as explained in the README file. Then, from the freedombox > directory, type the following: > > helpers/mplayer -ao usound http://www.freedombox.info/mp3/fb_talk.mp3 > > This will use the patched version of MPlayer that comes with FreedomBox > to play an MP3 stream from the FreedomBox web site. Let me know if that > audio is distorted. > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
