Re: Re: No sound - Solaris x86

>Concerning audio on Solaris/x86, I see that the problem is that ogle
>is trying to set the sample rate to 48000 in
>
>  info.play.sample_rate = audio_info->sample_rate;
>
>but the SoundBlaster cards (except the AWE32?) supported in Solaris 8
>only go to 45000.  This gives
>
>      setinfo: Invalid argument
>      FATAL[ogle_audio]: ogle_ao_init: 
>
>   corresponding to the code 
>
>     /* set the audio format */
>     if(ioctl(instance->fd, AUDIO_SETINFO, &info) == -1) {
>       perror("setinfo");
>       return -1;
>     }
>
>   from ogle-0.9.2/libogleao/solaris_audio.c.
>
>Substituting something lower for the sample rate allows ogle to
>continue, although the sound is of course too slow.
>
>It is possible that the "audio mixer audio personality module
>interface" on Solaris/x86 is supposed to be used by ogle (?):
>
>     The audio mixer supports the new  multi-stream  Codecs  that
>     have become available recently. Examples of these Codecs are
>     the  Crystal  Semiconductor   4410/4422   and   the   Aureal
>     8820/8830.  These devices have DSP engines on them that pro-
>     vide a great many features, such as sample rate  conversion.
>     Therefore  each  play/record channel is mapped to an indivi-
>     dual channel straight into the Codec  and  the  audio  mixer
>     doesn't  do  any  sample  rate  or  encoding  conversion, as
>     described below. However, the programming interfaces  remain
>     the same and applications cannot tell the difference between
>     a multi-stream Codec and a traditional Codec.
>
>This appears to be far beyond my feeble talents.  Is there another
>workaround?  Ogle does not seem to support rate conversion.  I'm
>uncertain if the AWE32 (one of the few cards listed in Sun's
>compatibility list) would solve the problem.  Maybe Solaris 9 has
>better hardware support


Darrel,

  Hi, have you tried using Jurgen Keil's sound driver located at 
http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/  
  
  I'm using this one and sound is working for me.  Hope this helps.
  
Jake