RE: sound volume on sunblade 100

Richard Klingler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Message-ID <r01050400-1022-D6E9F13406CE11D7ADD500039387ACB6@[10.0.1.2]>
> Was there anything special that you had to do to get the Linux to boot on
> the Sun Blade?  I have tried several times to install SUSE on my Sun Blade,
> but every time it hangs somewhere in the install.  Different places all of
> the time. 
> 
> If you can give me any info, I would appreciate it....
> 

I just had to flash OpenBoot version 4.5.9 so the "lost interrupts"
errors disappeared (ide=nodma had no effect on other versions).

Then just boot from the CD. At the SILO prompt enter "text ide=nodma"
and off you go (o;


Well...got a little bit further with the sound. But the alsa-driver
doesn't install the driver correctly. All have missing "init_module()" entries.


Rick
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