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Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000



   From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.de>
   Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:10:47 +0100

   On Sat, 15.12.01 16:48, Peter Jones (pjones@redhat.com) wrote:

   > 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?

Peter is giving you incorrect information, that is why.



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