[Wizard] Audio drivers

[Scott Middleton]

I've been playing around with that the last couple of days. Haven't had
good success yet.
mp3 playback is somewhat jerky when using anything more than splay.
mp3blaster is jerky at best - increasing the cache doesn't help. I am
not even in swap! I wanted mp3blaster because of the ability to use the
numeric keypad to control the interface. 

I wanted a mp3 player that can handle simple keyboard commands. So i
decided to build mplayer which my preliminary tests seem OK but still
have much more testing to do. 

If you were using Debian i could give you my kernel.deb file which is
built on the 2.4.22. I have the drivers built in.

I have the boot time to under 1 minute including bios start. I have
partitioned the HDD into several partitions and plan on making them
read-only except for the /var dir for logging and the /Music dir which i
use for holding the mp3s. I have also setup the usb for so i can add my
usb-stick to transfer/play songs.


On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:51, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:44:15PM +0800, Lee Ryan wrote:
> | Does the distro that comes pre-installed on the PC have audio drivers
> | installed?
> 
> No idea, but I'd imagine not; it seemed pretty messed up to me.  The
> kernel configuration option you're after is CONFIG_KAHLUA, confusingly
> described as "XpressAudio" in make menuconfig.  You need to do enable the
> drivers like so:
> 
> Sound ---->
> <M> Sound card support
> <M>   OSS sound modules
> <M>     100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support
> <M>     XpressAudio Sound Blaster emulation
> 
> Note that while the XpressAudio driver is the one that works on the
> wizard, you still have to have SB16 support compiled in to be able to
> see that option.
> 
> I haven't had to opportunity to actually test this yet :( as I don't
> have the cables required.  But you can 'modprobe kahlua' to load the
> drivers and it seems to think it finds a sound card so hopefully it
> should be all good.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
> 
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