I installed snv_37 today on my Acer Ferrari 4005 and found a problem with the
sound driver.
After installing Solaris I installed the beta driver for the sound hw from OSS
(version 152 and 155). Both installations failed with an error in the
postinstall script:
## Executing postinstall script.
Starting Open Sound System....please wait
add_drv -m '* 0666 root sys' osscore
add_drv -m '* 0666 root sys' -i '"pci1002,4370"' atiaudio
("pci1002,4370") already in use as a driver or alias.
add_drv -m '* 0666 root sys' -i '"pci1002,4370"' atiaudio
Installing OSS (atiaudio) failed
This did not happen with the previous releases of Solaris (last one I tested
was snv_33) - so it looks like there are new or enhanced sound driver in snv37.
But they did not work as expected - at least I did not manage to configure
them correct for the Ferrari.
Q: Where can I find documentation about the sound driver in Solaris ?
After some searching and testing I installed the 1.9beta version of Juergen
Keils audio driver (http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/) and these drivers work
with snv37.
regards
Bernd
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