RE: Linux Sparc Sound does not work
The amd7930 chips are only 8-bit mono in capacity.
If you want to dump sound directly to the /dev/audio you need to make sure
it's an 8-bit Sun .AU file or it will produce nothing but noise. You can
use the sox package to convert from .WAV to .AU with no problems. You might
be able to use some package that plays .WAV files directly but I'm not sure
which one will work for you or if one exists for Sparc.
As for mpg123 - I use it with the -r 8000 and 8 bit mono settings and it
will play music just fine. (I'm using an IPX as my .MP3 alarm clock
personally. *grin*) It will _not_ do stereo - probably because of the speed
of the machine. I've tried. It comes out slow and/or choppy.
If you want to play .MP3 files you should probably get an LX with at least
32meg of ram and the latest Debian Sparc kernel that supports the DBRI audio
properly. That's what's _hopefully_ going to be my in-card .MP3 player. (I
already have such a machine built I just have to find a good way to put it
in the car. ;-)
Hope this clears things up a little!
Mike Hebel
-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Diniz [mailto:rafael2k@terra.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:59 PM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Linux Sparc Sound does not work
Hello,
I have a Sparc Station IPX with 40Mb of ram, and I want to play musics in
it.
I loaded the succefully the amd7930 sound driver, I did a cat something >
/dev/dsp and it played a nice noise sound.
but, when I tried to do a cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp, the same noise sound
happens.
With mpg123 it returned a error:
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16 bit, failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8 bit stereo.
SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT: Invalid Argument
.
.
.
What's the problem?
Thanks
RafaelDiniz
Brazil
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