After a bit of research, I found some ENV variables and stuff to try to keep system alters to a minimum. I only create one directory and populate it with a symlink to my libalsa.so file.
I'm also trying to understand how all the sound works on the Kindle. Playing a file with tts only seems to load libasound.so but no libalsa or anything like that? It seems some players like mplayer and the TTS play directly to the hw device /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p?
I guess pianobar does have libalsa as a dependency, but the file where I can list drivers for playback list null, au, wav, or alsa. I tried all the others and get 'cannot open audio device' but if I load alsa and link in libalsa.so I get it working fine. Audio under linux sure is complicated. I've now read dozens of pages with how this stuff seems to work - I still don't understand.
As an aside, should I have a link under KUAL to remove all traces of my alteration? Or just leave it in a README file?
I'll make changes to my package.
Thanks for all the info!
EDIT: I included a version of patchelf for my Kindle. It needs to go in /mnt/us/extensions and run the script called patchelf because it needs to load a library not on my Kindle... I could patch it with patchelf...
