Comment 2 for bug 805261

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 10:48:30PM -0000, N7DR wrote:
> natty, 64-bit:
>
> There seems to be no way to obtain audio from cwdaemon.
>
> The following should work (I believe):
> 1. as root: cwdaemon -n -v 100 -x b
> 2. in another terminal: nc 127.0.0.1 6789 < test
> [test is a file that contains text]

This should probably be "nc -u", in order to send UDP packets.

> When I do this no audio is heard. Indeed, I have tried everything I
> can think of, but nothing generates any audio.

With nc -u, cwdaemon says:

cw: open /dev/audio: No such file or directory

Obviously cwdaemon it uses OSS via cwlib (package unixcw), but OSS is
no longer availabe by default. Using it with "padsp" fails due to a
problem with /dev/mixer (although it's supposed to be provided by
padsp).

cw: open /dev/mixer: Input/output error

It might be possible to "fix" (or break) cwlib in a way that it works
with padsp, but a cleaner solution would be adding PulseAudio support
to cwlib. I am not sure if cwlib is still maintained any longer by
its original author Simon Baldwin (G0FRD); the current version 2.3
seems to be from 2006.

If it is indeed unmaintained, I'd give it a try and add PA support.

73,
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