Configuring Audio

Salad Shooter · 12-14-2005, 09:51 PM

Greetings! I am new to Solaris (and the *nix world, for that matter) having some slight difficulty with my audio.

I am using Solaris 10, fully updated. I have installed drivers for my soundcard (the file was called audio-1.8-i86pc). I'm not sure what sound card I have in here, so I installed all the drivers that were in it (is this a bad thing, if so how do I remove them?). It recognizes the audio controller as being there (it no longer screams at me for it not being found when I try and play something). However, I cannot get any sound with the CD Player or the Java Media player. The regular system sounds (fwips and beeps when I open windows and that jazz) do occur. XMMS yells about how it can't find the audio, and outputs the following to the terminal:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

Any idea how I can get the sound working fully? Thank you very much!

Salad Shooter · 12-14-2005, 09:57 PM

Never mind! Had something selected wrong on the XMMS thing and got it working. Still not sure why the media player and cd player weren't working

halvy · 12-15-2005, 06:15 AM

why dont' you try the same things that fixed xmms?

your sys is obviously working pretty well otherwise..

whatever sound (services) you are using (ie oss/alsa, etc) needs to be set up for each differnt program (correctly).

sometimes in unix you even need to set up different out puts and in puts, using different type sound systems.

soloris is not known for outstanding multimedia capabilities (afaik).

good luck.

Dominique_71 · 12-15-2005, 11:59 AM

lsmod | grep snd
will give you the list of the alsa sound modules.

One thing you can do if you are using alsa is to try alsaconf in a console. It will configure the alsa driver for you, and as it is oss compatible, it is the best choice. It will work with jack too if you want to do professional audio.

For serious audio work, you must considere to install another distro as Agnula/DeMuDi.

jlliagre · 12-15-2005, 03:16 PM

"lsmod | grep snd" looks to me very Linuxish ... and the L in ALSA stands for Linux, so I doubt it is relevant with Solaris.

Dominique_71 · 12-15-2005, 05:02 PM

Sorry, but I never used Solaris and I was not knowing at it was so different from linux.

reddazz · 01-03-2006, 07:40 AM

Ok,I need a guide on how to confiugure audio as well. I have Solaris 10.0 installed and a creative soundblaster live 5.1 soundcard. I have searched on google, but can't get any decent articles regarding this.

jlliagre · 01-03-2006, 02:16 PM

There is no Solaris 10.0, but Solaris 10 and Solaris Express/OpenSolaris.

Better to have the most recent Solaris Express to have a better peripherals support. SB Live 5.1 seems to me pretty common, so it may be detected out of the box.

Run "prtconf -pv" and look for "Audio device" in its output.

If nothing shows out, you can try the drivers from http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/

reddazz · 01-03-2006, 02:30 PM

Sorry, I meant Solaris 10. The output I get is below,

Code:

 model:  'PCI: 1102,2.1102.8067.a - Audio device'             name:  'pci1102,8067'
            power-consumption:  00000001.00000001
            reg:  00006800.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.01006810.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000020
            revision-id:  0000000a
            slot:  00000003
            subsystem-id:  00008067
            subsystem-vendor-id:  00001102
            unit-address:  'd'
            vendor-id:  00001102

jlliagre · 01-03-2006, 05:32 PM

Okay, your sound card is detected.
Check if a driver is found for it with "prtconf -D|grep pci1102"

reddazz · 01-03-2006, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

Okay, your sound card is detected.
Check if a driver is found for it with "prtconf -D|grep pci1102"

Thaks for your help. I am at work now, so I will post back the results of the commands above sometime in the morning when I get home.

reddazz · 01-04-2006, 03:05 AM

Ok, the results of running "prtconf -D|grep pci1102"are

Code:

 
pci1102,8067
pci1102,20

jlliagre · 01-04-2006, 04:44 AM

No driver attached to the device.
Try audioemu from http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/

reddazz · 01-04-2006, 05:51 AM

Ok, I have installed it and the driver has been recognised. The problem now is that I cannot hear any sound even though I have adjusted my volume levels using Audio Control and Gnome Mixer. Running "mixerctl" shows the following,

Code:

Device /dev/audioctl:
Name    = SUNW,CS4231
Version = 0A,SB Live!
Config  = EMU10Kx

/dev/audioctl doesn't support the audio mixer function

Edit: Ok, it works now. I had misconnected a cable to the soundcard. Thanks a lot for your help.