RE: Ok - I'll bite...How do you make the 8 bit sound work on an IPC?
I chose to load the audio module during the Debian install but not the
amd7930 - I didn't know that it was required. Looks like I'm re-compiling
the Kernel or re-installing then.
Is there any documentation on this at all?
Thanks again!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow@dementia.org]
> >Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 10:19 AM
> >To: Fleet Captain Druaga
> >Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: Ok - I'll bite...How do you make the 8 bit
> >sound work on an
> >IPC?
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Fleet Captain Druaga wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> OK.
> >> Here's what I've got:
> >> Debian 2.1 on a Sparc IPC, 36meg RAM, 200meg (/dev/sda),
> >cdrom (/dev/cdrom)
> >> SCSI ID 6)
> >>
> >> I'm sure I've got the kernel installed with audio module
> >installed - I chose
> >> to install that module when I did the install that I
> >booted from the CD-ROM
> >> directly.
> >>
> >> I was able to do a MAKEDEV audio and get the /dev entries
> >into existence but
> >> if I run something like esd or bplay it tells me that
> >/dev/dsp doesn't
> >> exist.
> >>
> >> I couldn't find a specific Sparc sound How-To for Debian
> >so anything would
> >> help me at this point.
> >
> >Maybe I'll write one. I assume you have modules "audio" and "amd7930"
> >loaded, if those are modular? Else, does dmesg say an
> >amd7930 was found on
> >the machine? If not, configure your kernel for audio
> >
> >-D
> >
> >
> >
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