[BRLTTY] alert tones

Daniel Dalton d.dalton at iinet.net.au
Sat Mar 14 07:10:52 EDT 2009


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:22:48AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:
> 
> > Agree, I think brltty should automatically build alsa support in for PCM
> > tunes!
> 
> I tend to agree as well, especially because some OSS drivers in the
> recent linux kernel are depreached, and AFAIR some were even removed.
> 
> Maybe the check in configure should be replaced with a fallback?  Check for
> ALSA first, if no libasound2 can be found, fallback to OSS?

No objections from me. :-)

> This should cover the case where someone tries to get brltty running
> on an older distro.

Yes, sounds good, also, should the same be done for midi tunes although
I haven't played with that... What's the difference between midi and
pcm?

Daniel.


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