Re: Audio on my Sparc Ultra 5

[gavin duley <gduley@une.edu.au>]

On 3 Aug 2006, at 04:45, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote:

> Hello World,
>
> i've a Sun Ultra 5 (360Mhz cpu with 256Mb Ram) and i work with Debian
> Sarge...the system is Ok,good,but i cannot configure on-board  
> device audio.
> I install all ALSA pkg but with "alsaconf" Debian can't configure the
> device ,i think taht there isn't the good module .
>
> Where is the problem???

It *should* work... The Sun Ultra 5 uses a Sun CS4231, which is  
supported by ALSA 1.0.8. See:

http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2005- 
January/000522.html

and use Ctrl+F to search for CS4231 (two separate mentions).

However, this exchange on debian-sparc last year suggests that the  
particular card used in Suns is not supported well by ALSA 1.0.8  
(which is what is used in sarge). I can confirm that it works well  
with ALSA 1.0.11 (which is what is used in etch):

audio and dri with ultra 60
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/01/msg00119.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/01/msg00121.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/01/msg00128.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/01/msg00130.html

Hope this is of some help.

gavin,

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Gavin Duley
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