On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sat, 15.12.01 16:48, Peter Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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