The problem of play appears to be related to devices. In the case of Blastwave's XMMS using the liboss for output it is expecting /dev/dsp. However, running
$ ossinfo -a Audio devices High Definition Audio front /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm0 (device index 0) High Definition Audio rear /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm1 (device index 1) High Definition Audio center/LFE /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm2 (device index 2) High Definition Audio side /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm3 (device index 3) High Definition Audio pcm4 /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcm4 (device index 4) High Definition Audio spdif-out /dev/oss/hdaudio0/spdout0 (device index 5) High Definition Audio rec1 /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin0 (device index 6) High Definition Audio rec2 /dev/oss/hdaudio0/pcmin1 (device index 7) High Definition Audio spdif-in /dev/oss/hdaudio0/spdin0 (device index 8) When selecting libsolaris XMMS produces the following warning:- $ xmms ** WARNING **: solaris output: Unknown sound card type: SUNW,oss ** WARNING **: solaris output: Assuming capable of the bitstream Running a truss on gnome-cd provides the following information that it uses /dev/audioctl and /dev/audio /dev/audio links to /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:sound,audio /dev/audioctl links to /devices/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:sound,audioctl The sadasupport device is created by the OSS driver, the truss is indicating no errors of failing to write to the /dev/audio or /dev/audioctl devices. So the error may be in the driver. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
