FreedomBox ot?

[Matt Campbell]

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