[BRLTTY] how to switch pcm tune device to alsa

[Chris Moore]

Dave,
I rebuilt brltty on the target machine, and everything works as expected.  Building from source is always the safest approach even though it involves a little more work than installing a prebuilt binary.

Chris
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by Chris Moore on 2015/10/28 at 09:14 -0400]
> 
>> I’m trying to use the pcm tune device.  I get the error attempting to open /dev/dsp.  My linux system uses alsa and doesn’t have the /dev/dsp device.
>> How can I direct brltty to use alsa.
> 
> /dev/dsp is part of OSS - not ALSA. Wen you configured brltty, it must've not 
> detected ALSA. If so, that's most likely because you don't have the ALSA 
> development package (maybe alsa-devel or alsa-dev) installed.
> 
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