diff -r a57ed3e919ca Make.pulse
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Make.pulse	Tue Nov 05 14:02:59 2019 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Linux with pulse audio
+PTHREAD=-pthread
+AR=ar
+AS=as
+RANLIB=ranlib
+X11=/usr/X11R6
+CC=gcc
+CFLAGS=-Wall -Wno-missing-braces -ggdb -I$(ROOT) -I$(ROOT)/include -I$(ROOT)/kern -c -I$(X11)/include -D_THREAD_SAFE $(PTHREAD) -O2
+O=o
+OS=posix
+GUI=x11
+LDADD=-L$(X11)/lib64 -L$(X11)/lib -lX11 -ggdb -lpulse-simple
+LDFLAGS=$(PTHREAD)
+TARG=drawterm
+AUDIO=pulse
+
+all: default
+
+libmachdep.a:
+	arch=`uname -m|sed 's/i.86/386/;s/Power Macintosh/power/; s/x86_64/amd64/; s/armv[567].*/arm/'`; \
+	(cd posix-$$arch &&  make)
diff -r a57ed3e919ca kern/devaudio-pulse.c
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/kern/devaudio-pulse.c	Tue Nov 05 14:02:59 2019 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * Linux pulse audio support
+ */
+#include <pulse/simple.h>
+
+#include	"u.h"
+#include	"lib.h"
+#include	"dat.h"
+#include	"fns.h"
+#include	"error.h"
+#include	"devaudio.h"
+
+
+pa_simple *s = nil;
+static const pa_sample_spec ss = {
+	.format = PA_SAMPLE_S16LE,
+	.rate = 44100,
+	.channels = 2
+};
+
+/* maybe this should return -1 instead of sysfatal */
+void
+audiodevopen(void)
+{
+	int err;
+	if (!(s = pa_simple_new(NULL, "drawterm", PA_STREAM_PLAYBACK, NULL, "playback", &ss, NULL, NULL, &err)))
+		oserror();
+}
+
+void
+audiodevclose(void)
+{
+	if(s)
+		pa_simple_free(s);
+}
+
+int
+audiodevread(void *a, int n)
+{
+	error("no read support");
+	return -1;
+}
+
+int
+audiodevwrite(void *a, int n)
+{
+	int err;
+	if(pa_simple_write(s, a, n, &err) < 0)
+		oserror();
+	return n;
+}
+
+void
+audiodevsetvol(int what, int left, int right)
+{
+	error("no volume support");
+}
+
+void
+audiodevgetvol(int what, int *left, int *right)
+{
+	error("no volume support");
+}
+