Re: Sound on sun4c
If it is any consolation peter, I have never been able to make audio
work with any of my sparc4's, 5's or even on this ultra 5 (which has
woody installed).
It seems like a complete mystery to me.
david
it is not like a huge priority but sometimes i might just like to hear a
mp3 as i try to do some real work.....
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:20, peter_easthope@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:
> Ben, Ian and others,
>
> At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:18:33 +1000 (EST) Ian commented,
> it> ... just load the sparcaudio modules ...
>
> amd7930 and audio were loaded and madplay still failed.
>
> it> Now ALSA would be interesting to get working on Sparc.
>
> Installed it with dselect and selected Dummy_soundcard
> with alsaconf. madplay still fails with this familiar message.
>
> output: ioctl(SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT): Invalid argument
>
> The problem with alsa in Debian 2.2.19 appears to be
> that the DSP is not supported properly.
>
> it> audio isn't too important on the old Sparc's, so don't
> hold your breath.
>
> Pity that the hardware is there but the software can
> not operate it.
>
> At Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:08:44 -0400 Ben remarked,
> bc> My system works just fine with OSS applications
> (granted it's an ultra, but still).
>
> The DSP chip in this Sparc is an AMD 79c30 whereas
> the ultra has something else. Also, you might be running
> an OS more recent than Debian 2.2.19 which is on
> this machine.
>
> If anyone has any further suggestions I'm still interested.
>
> Thanks, Peter E.
>
>
>
> Peter Easthope
> http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
>
>
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