[plug] Sound on Sun Blade 100

[W.Kenworthy]

Are you using alsa or oss?  Its not the alsasound "foible" of installing
muted by default?  - check the mixer.

BillK

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:01 +0800, Walter HILL wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to get sound happening on my Sun Blade 100. I'm running Gentoo.
> 
> Linux apollo 2.4.29-sparc #1 SMP Fri Feb 25 10:49:31 WST 2005 sparc64 
> sun4u TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) GNU/Linux
> 
> lspci reveals.
> 
> 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI 
> AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
> 
> After lots of Googling I have the following modules loaded. trident.o is 
> suggested for the onboard sound.
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> smbfs                  56880   0  (unused)
> parport_pc             28200   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      8920   0  (autoclean)
> parport                34304   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> openpromfs             13784   1  (autoclean)
> trident                38776   2
> ac97_codec             17208   0  [trident]
> soundcore               4836   2  [trident]
> 
> Having done all of this I'm unable to hear anything. Whilst playing a CD 
> the track information is retrieved and it appears to be playing but 
> nothing is coming out of the internal speaker or the speaker socket - 
> yes I checked the volume controls. It also "appears" to play mp3 except 
> all I get is a loud noise which isn't controlled by the volume knobs. 
> Now ordinarily I'd give up but before trying Gentoo I installed Aurora 
> 1.0 & the sound worked fine. I abandoned Aurora because it kept failing 
> whilst trying to upgrade to 1.92. Plus I like the idea of Gentroo and 
> starting from a clean box.
> 
> Has anyone got any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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