[plug] Sound on Sun Blade 100

[Walter HILL]

W.Kenworthy wrote:

>Are you using alsa or oss?  Its not the alsasound "foible" of installing
>muted by default?  - check the mixer.
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>BillK
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I was labouring under the assumption that the ALSA drivers only worked 
with a 2.6.x kernel. I'm having problems with the 2.6 kernel so I stayed 
with 2.4. I did download the ALSA drivers but the instructions on Gentoo 
WWW site were somewhat confusing. If is simply a matter of downloading 
the ALSA drivers, compiling them an loading them instead of the kernel 
modules then I could give it a shot. So the short answer is no - I'm 
using the kernel drivers. I have seen a post about the mixer being muted 
by default.

W

>On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:01 +0800, Walter HILL wrote:
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>>Hello All,
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>>I am trying to get sound happening on my Sun Blade 100. I'm running Gentoo.
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>>Linux apollo 2.4.29-sparc #1 SMP Fri Feb 25 10:49:31 WST 2005 sparc64 
>>sun4u TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) GNU/Linux
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>>lspci reveals.
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>>0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI 
>>AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
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>>After lots of Googling I have the following modules loaded. trident.o is 
>>suggested for the onboard sound.
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>>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]
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>>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.
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>>Has anyone got any suggestions?
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>>TIA
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