Hi all, thanks for the suggestions,
I found out one way so far, with soundfiler and -raw 128 2 2 b.

Now, did I remember correctly that in /proc/... you can also read something that changes continuously, depending on the state of the machine?
afaict, vmlinuz is just a static file.

About /dev/dsp, I tried that modprobe snd-pcm-oss thing, but still no /dev/dsp. 
Not that I would really need it now if I can do all this in pd anyway...
It's just that I noticed it wasn't there when trying to do the original 'cat' trick as a quick test.

gr,
Tim

2011/9/12 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

Ah, right, I forgot the format of the array files, its a list of floats,
i.e. space separated values.  You can use mrpeach/binfile to read any
file byte-by-byte.  Then use those bytes as floats.

.hc

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 19:59 +0200, tim vets wrote:
> Hi Hans, thanks,
> i tried:
> [; mytable read /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-30-generic(
> but i just get:
> 'read 0 elements into table of size 1000'
> any idea?
> Tim
> 2011/9/12 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
>
>         Open it as a .wav or .snd.  Or just load it directly into an
>         array using the [read( message.
>
>         .hc
>
>
>
>         On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:09 PM, tim vets wrote:
>
>
>
>                 Hi all,
>                 I would like to get the sound of my kernel into pd.
>                 cat /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-30-generic > /dev/dsp
>                 should be a command I can get the sound of my kernel
>                 into the speakers with.
>                 However, while I remember having done similar before,
>                 right now,
>                 on this machine there doesn't even seem to be
>                 a /dev/dsp present...
>                 also, how would I get this into pd?
>                 thanks,
>                 Tim
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