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Originally Posted by lenoch View Post
But what about sound? Do you think it is possible to play music from inside chroot? I didn't have success with plain ALSA, maybe I just didn't try hard enough. I guess a method involving PulseAudio (of a compatible version) could work: either by connecting separate instances in Maemo and Arch, or by making whatever PA might use to communicate with clients available to Arch (sockets, pipes, /dev/shm, I haven't looked)… Thinking about that, I would be surprised if this weren't solved in other projects, such as EasyDebian
Based on my current experience with ALSA and/versus PA on Ubuntu I guess (!) you'll have to at least stop PA on Maemo to make ALSA work. (Stopped using PA because it sometime hits 100% CPU until it's restarted, presumably because of faulty Intel drivers).