On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:37:58 +0200, Charles T. Smith wrote:

> Is there a short course or HOWTO for setting up sound on a sparc?
>
> I have Solar 10 (and 9) on a SunBlade 1000. I tried to listen to a clip
> on mozilla, with the window x-ed onto my linux box and my headphones
> plugged into the blade. No sound. This after a standard, relatively
> problem-free install (after the x-th re-install
>
> man -k mix yielded mixerctl, which yielded:
> device /dev/audioctl - Access denied
>
> Before starting mozilla as root, I checked around and noticed:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/audioctl
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl $
> ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
> /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Oops, sorry ..

/dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found

>
>
> There's esdctl and esdmon, which might be candidates, but from Linux
> experience I know sound is a very delicate thing that I don't want to
> break before I get started.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

On Apr 24, 3:40 am, "Charles T. Smith" wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:37:58 +0200, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> > Is there a short course or HOWTO for setting up sound on a sparc?

Already setup. Defaults to speaker

> > I have Solar 10 (and 9) on a SunBlade 1000. I tried to listen to a clip
> > on mozilla, with the window x-ed onto my linux box and my headphones
> > plugged into the blade. No sound. This after a standard, relatively
> > problem-free install (after the x-th re-install
> > man -k mix yielded mixerctl, which yielded:
> > device /dev/audioctl - Access denied
> > Before starting mozilla as root, I checked around and noticed:
> > $ ls -l /dev/audioctl
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl $
> > ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
> > /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Wus?
> Oops, sorry
> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found

I dont see how it couldnt be there unless someone deleted it.

> > There's esdctl and esdmon, which might be candidates, but from Linux
> > experience I know sound is a very delicate thing that I don't want to
> > break before I get started.

Maybe devfsadm would help.

In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:

> Oops, sorry ..
>
> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found

That's no solaris error message. What OS are you running?



Martin

--
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't;
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!"

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:57:41 +0000, Martin Etteldorf wrote:

> In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:
>
>> Oops, sorry ..
>>
>> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found
>
> That's no solaris error message. What OS are you running?
>
>
>
> Martin

It's Solaris (10) (translated from the German):

>> ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
>> /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
>
>Oops, sorry ..
>
> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found

In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:57:41 +0000, Martin Etteldorf wrote:
>
>> In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Oops, sorry ..
>>>
>>> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found
>>
>> That's no solaris error message. What OS are you running?
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin
>
> It's Solaris (10) (translated from the German):

The Solaris 10 error message would have been
"/dev/sound0ctl: No such file or directory"

How dou you expect people to help you if you don't even
quote the error message right?


Martin

--
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't;
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!"

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:50:32 +0000, Martin Etteldorf wrote:

> In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:57:41 +0000, Martin Etteldorf wrote:
>>
>>> In comp.sys.sun.apps Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oops, sorry ..
>>>>
>>>> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found
>>>
>>> That's no solaris error message. What OS are you running?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>> It's Solaris (10) (translated from the German):
>
> The Solaris 10 error message would have been "/dev/sound0ctl: No such file
> or directory"
>
> How dou you expect people to help you if you don't even quote the error
> message right?
>
>
> Martin


You're kidding, right?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:35:01 -0700, gerryt wrote:

> On Apr 24, 3:40 am, "Charles T. Smith" wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:37:58 +0200, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>> > Is there a short course or HOWTO for setting up sound on a sparc?
>
> Already setup. Defaults to speaker


Hmmm. I don't see any speaker grill or volume control ... I bought this
thing used - there's no mention of a speaker in the Sun Blade 1000
"Getting Started Guide". Maybe they're in the screen and keyboard (which
I don't have)?


>
>> > I have Solar 10 (and 9) on a SunBlade 1000. I tried to listen to a
>> > clip on mozilla, with the window x-ed onto my linux box and my
>> > headphones plugged into the blade. No sound. This after a standard,
>> > relatively problem-free install (after the x-th re-install man -k
>> > mix yielded mixerctl, which yielded:
>> > device /dev/audioctl - Access denied
>> > Before starting mozilla as root, I checked around and noticed: $ ls
>> > -l /dev/audioctl
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl ->
>> > sound/0ctl $ ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
>> > /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Wus?
>> Oops, sorry
>> /dev/sound0ctl: File or Directory not found
>
> I dont see how it couldnt be there unless someone deleted it.
>
>> > There's esdctl and esdmon, which might be candidates, but from Linux
>> > experience I know sound is a very delicate thing that I don't want to
>> > break before I get started.
>
> Maybe devfsadm would help.


Oh, I didn't know about that command, thank you.

In this case, though, it didn't help ....

# devfsadm -v
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/mass-storage0
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/devstat
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/cntrl0
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/cntrl0stat
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0in1
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0in1stat
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0out2
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0out2stat
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0in3
devfsadm[775]: verbose: removing file: /dev/usb/ea0.2168/0/if0in3stat


Hmmm. I guess I'm stuck.

Charles T. Smith wrote:
> Is there a short course or HOWTO for setting up sound on a sparc?
>
> I have Solar 10 (and 9) on a SunBlade 1000. I tried to listen to a clip
> on mozilla, with the window x-ed onto my linux box and my headphones
> plugged into the blade. No sound. This after a standard, relatively
> problem-free install (after the x-th re-install
>
> man -k mix yielded mixerctl, which yielded:
> device /dev/audioctl - Access denied
>
> Before starting mozilla as root, I checked around and noticed:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/audioctl
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl
> $ ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
> /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

You missed the slash between sound and 0ctl.
ls -l /dev/sound/0ctl will show the real device.


> There's esdctl and esdmon, which might be candidates, but from Linux
> experience I know sound is a very delicate thing that I don't want to
> break before I get started.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:51:45 +0200, Frank Langelage wrote:

> Charles T. Smith wrote:
>> Is there a short course or HOWTO for setting up sound on a sparc?
>>
>> I have Solar 10 (and 9) on a SunBlade 1000. I tried to listen to a clip
>> on mozilla, with the window x-ed onto my linux box and my headphones
>> plugged into the blade. No sound. This after a standard, relatively
>> problem-free install (after the x-th re-install
>>
>> man -k mix yielded mixerctl, which yielded:
>> device /dev/audioctl - Access denied
>>
>> Before starting mozilla as root, I checked around and noticed:
>>
>> $ ls -l /dev/audioctl
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl $
>> ls -FC /dev/sound0ctl
>> /dev/sound0ctl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
>
> You missed the slash between sound and 0ctl. ls -l /dev/sound/0ctl will
> show the real device.


Yikes! You're right!

$ ls -l /dev/audioctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/audioctl -> sound/0ctl

$ ls -l /dev/sound/0ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Mar 19 01:32 /dev/sound/0ctl -> ../../devices/pci@8,700000/ebus@5/audio@1,200000:sound,audioctl


Sorry for my clumsiness.

BTW, I think I got the decisive tip on this in comp.unix.solaris:

Message-ID:

where I was instructed to do a "man logindevperm". I expect that studying
this will get me there.

Thanks all, for considering this.

On my Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 9 here are all the devices:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 8 2006 /dev/audio -> sound/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 8 2006 /dev/audioctl ->
sound/0ctl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Jun 8 2006 /dev/sound/0 ->
.../../devices/pci@8,700000/ebus@5/audio@1,200000:sound,audio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Jun 8 2006 /dev/sound/0ctl ->
.../../devices/pci@8,700000/ebus@5/audio@1,200000:sound,audioctl

I use RealPlayer 8 and the audio sounds great.

The way the internal speaker is mounted the sound should be coming out the
right side towards the front.

Trinean