Sound will be a problem - though perhaps not as bad as I'm thinking.

The flash player uses asound (ALSA). The problem is that gstreamer and apparently everything else use something with the DSP, so the /dev/snd/pcmXXYYZ devices aren't created or used. Something simple like aplay/arecord won't work.

I will have to look at libasound2, but what it should be doing is accessing the dsp like gstreamer. I suspect it is just trying to do the /dev/snd stuff.

(Note the ALSA support "help" in the kernel config says it doesn't do the PCM devices, the DSP is supposed to do the dirty work - but the library might be adapted or adaptable).