Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sat, 15.12.01 16:48, Peter Jones (pjones@redhat.com) wrote:
>
> First I have to correct me, I have a Sun Blade 100 and not an Sun
> Blade 1000. I made a typo in the original mail.
>
> > > I am currently running Debian Sid with Kernel 2.4.17-rc1.
> > >
> > > Lennart
> >
> > You're using a sound card which isn't going to work in a sparc64.
> > Basicly, the card only has 30-bits of address space, whereas pci has a
> > 32-bit memory address space. The sparc pci controller always assigns
> > addreses with the high bit set, so that's just not going to work.
>
> But why is this sound chip built into the southbridge of the machine,
> when it will never work? Solaris 8 has no problems in playing
> sound. How does it do this with a sound card which does not work?
Hrm. Maybe that one's different from the one the driver writer had then;
I hadn't realized you were talking about the builtin card.
--
Peter
The trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
-- Paul Ginsparg
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