Am 03.09.2010 11:03, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
On 03/09/10 09:56, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 03.09.2010 10:24, schrieb Michael Schnell:
On 09/02/2010 06:42 PM, Peter E Williams wrote:
Sorry, but I am using Linux Ubuntu. As someone else made the point, it
apparently can only be done if I have root access to write
to /dev/console.
Of course Linux does have a sound subsystem that can be fed with audio
data by user programs via a decent API: ALSA.
I didn't want a component that I need root privileges
to run.
:)
If it is installed... -.-
That's the biggest problem with the Linux distrubtions "ecosystem" in my
opinion (but also one of its strengths): you can't rely on anything.
Some distros don't install this, some don't install that, some enable
setuid on beep (Debian), some don't (ArchLinux). No wonder that those
systems use things like autoconf :P
Exactly the opposite. You can rely on _anything_ you want. Just add a
dependency in your package to pull in the package you need. Using beep
as an example is contrived, since it's almost always the wrong thing to
use, and I presume that's why there's only one package in debian that
depends on it.
This only applies to distros that provide a dependency resolving package
system and if packages for your application are provided for that distro.
These two points should not be taken granted.
Regards,
Sven
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