FreedomBox ot?

[nick G]

Hey Matt speaking of Kernels, what's the difference between kernel 2.4 and
2.6?
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Campbell" <mattc at freedombox.cc>
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
>
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