 |
|
| Linux Forum Index » Linux Development » Giving alsa developers fits |
|
Page 1 of 1 |
|
| Author |
Message |
| Victor Schneider, Ph. D. |
 Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 11:23 am |
|
|
|
Guest
|
I bought a USB pendrive the other day and read the label on back, the
one that says it has a 5-year warrantee against failure. The warrantee
is probably a lie, but I ruin computer hard drives in much less Time
than that. And, considering what mail-order houses are charging for USB
pendrives nowadays, you wonder why Linux developers keep being squeamish
about writing to pendrive "too often".
At any rate, I have this fantasy of putting a complete Linux system onto
a pendrive, but in a vfat, not a Linux or a UMSDOS, partition. The idea
is to boot up a Linux system one way or another on cdrom or other
pendrive, then run a script linking it to the directories of the vfat
Linux system on a USB port by suitable PATH additions for run-time
purposes. So, things like software development tools and other 100 mb
applications would end up installed as funny vfat on the vfat Linux
drive, and files like fstab and mtab would end up in an e2fs ramdrive up
in memory Heaven, where the initial root system is stored after bootup.
The next fantasy over is an alsa project to provide alsa module handles
into the latest mysterious chips used for software dialup modems so that
non-alsa kernel modules addressing those modems can _find_ them through
alsa, and modem basics like "telephone off hook" are handled by alsa
modules. Alsa might even provide a standardized dialout group alsa
/dev/ttyALSA that programs like minicom can find and that things like
ltmodem and others can use. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT - 5 Hours
The time now is Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:22 pm
|
|