Re: Sound on sun4c
If it is any consolation peter, I have never been able to make audio work with any of my sparc4's, 5's or even on this ultra 5 (which has woody installed). It seems like a complete mystery to me. david it is not like a huge priority but sometimes i might just like to hear a mp3 as i try to do some real work. On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben, Ian and others, > > At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:18:33 +1000 (EST) Ian commented, > it> ... just load the sparcaudio modules ... > > amd7930 and audio were loaded and madplay still failed. > > it> Now ALSA would be interesting to get working on Sparc. > > Installed it with dselect and selected Dummy_soundcard > with alsaconf. madplay still fails with this familiar message. > > output: ioctl(SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT): Invalid argument > > The problem with alsa in Debian 2.2.19 appears to be > that the DSP is not supported properly. > > it> audio isn't too important on the old Sparc's, so don't > hold your breath. > > Pity that the hardware is there but the software can > not operate it. > > At Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:08:44 -0400 Ben remarked, > bc> My system works just fine with OSS applications > (granted it's an ultra, but still). > > The DSP chip in this Sparc is an AMD 79c30 whereas > the ultra has something else. Also, you might be running > an OS more recent than Debian 2.2.19 which is on > this machine. > > If anyone has any further suggestions I'm still interested. > > Thanks, Peter E. > > > > Peter Easthope > http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on sun4c
> Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) BC wrote on Jun 9, 2002: BC> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 12:24:11AM -0500, Mute wrote: BC> > BC> > BC> > this is like the 30th sound related email in the past week or 2.. someone BC> > should take the liberty to make a mini audio faq BC> BC> Does that mean you are volunteering? BC> If / when I come across these problems... sure. On a related note, to satisfy my own urges... There isn't enough posted information on the net for people looking into the issues w/ ip routing / tunneling. There's a little bit but its all scattered with no real conclusion. If your someone that's already in the know these problems have become trivial and commonly asked (re: annoying). So hopefully, any newcommers finding this problem wont have to ask about it umpteen times, waste time searching, or bother people on the list(s). http://linux.lithiumnode.com/tunnel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on sun4c
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> I've never heard of the sndstat device before.
You're kidding? /dev/sndstat has always been there in OSS/Free.
Here's the contents on my Athlon machine with ALSA/OSS emulation:
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Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta12 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux saavik 2.4.19-pre7-int #5 Fri May 24 21:24:31 EST 2002 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
Sound Blaster Live! at 0xdc00, irq 10
Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: mixer00
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Nothing too exciting, it just lists the various services registered with the
sound system. It is useful to see what's going on though.
> My system works just fine with OSS applications (granted it's an ultra, but
> still).
SparcAudio is seperate to OSS/Free in the kernel and it only implements the bare
minimum OSS functionality on its own. So, /dev/{dsp,audio,audioctl,mixer} work,
but /dev/sndstat is left out.
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Re: Sound on sun4c
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 12:24:11AM -0500, Mute wrote: > > > this is like the 30th sound related email in the past week or 2.. someone > should take the liberty to make a mini audio faq Does that mean you are volunteering? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on sun4c
this is like the 30th sound related email in the past week or 2.. someone should take the liberty to make a mini audio faq > Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) BC wrote on Jun 8, 2002: BC> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:30:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BC> > Debian users, BC> > BC> > Context: Sparc 2 4/75 (sun4c) running Debian 2.2.19 BC> > with amd7938 and audio modules installed. BC> > BC> > "cat sample.au > /dev/audio" and BC> > "cat sample.au > /dev/dsp" produce sound. BC> > BC> > "cat /dev/sndstat" gives this. BC> > BC> > cat: /dev/sndstat: Device not configured BC> BC> I've never heard of the sndstat device before. My system works just fine BC> with OSS applications (granted it's an ultra, but still). BC> BC> -- BC> Debian - http://www.debian.org/ BC> Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ BC> Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ BC> Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ BC> BC> BC> -- BC> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BC> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] BC> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound on sun4c
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:30:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian users, > > Context: Sparc 2 4/75 (sun4c) running Debian 2.2.19 > with amd7938 and audio modules installed. > > "cat sample.au > /dev/audio" and > "cat sample.au > /dev/dsp" produce sound. > > "cat /dev/sndstat" gives this. > > cat: /dev/sndstat: Device not configured I've never heard of the sndstat device before. My system works just fine with OSS applications (granted it's an ultra, but still). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
