Re: Ultra5 sound and Video's
Shannon Smith said:
> Hi Everyone.
>
> I am fairly new to both Sun Workstations and Lnux in general. I recently
> purchased myself an Ultra5 workstation and installed Woody (3.0r1) on it.
> I have not got it on the internet, simply as I want it to be a stand alone
> box. I have really only had one problem and one query. My problem is
> that I have no sound? I assumed I installed the sound support, but when I
> get into KDE, it just tells me that the sound server failed to load and
> that all output would be to null. Have I missed something or do I need to
> build another kernel to get this support.
be sure your account is in the audio group.
>
> My second thing is that I am looking for the "windows Media Player"
> equivalent for Debian SPARC. I have noatun running, but it only seems to
> run MPG's, and then only some of them. Is there a media player kind of
> application that will allow me to run my windows AVI's and DIVX's on my
> Ultra6
mplayer may be your best shot, though most codecs won't work since they
are for IA32, not for SPARC.
nate
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