[SunRescue] LX for sale (loaded?)

[John Bigboote]

I too use sound on my IPC, IPX and Classics.  It's a great tool to let me
know when the headless systems are up from boot-up.  I'm currently running
Solaris 7 on one, and NetBSD on the others.  NetBSD works great for the
basic sound stuff -> I current have a couple of servers that scream
"Beefcake!" in Cartman's voice when they come up. ;-)

I could never get any of these to play MP3s with any regularity thought.
Too slow - even without X.  Maybe I'll Wietek the IPX or SS2 and try again.

As for Debian I was never able to get the sound working right although I
will admit to not trying as hard in that case.

Sincerely,

Mike Hebel

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> >Behalf Of Matthew Haas
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 7:53 AM
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] LX for sale (loaded?)
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Eric Ozrelic wrote:
> >>
> >
> >[SNIP]
> >
> >> From my experiences with putting an LX in my car as an MP3
> >player.... The
> >> only way to take advantage of the onboard weird ass 16 bit ISDN/DBRI
> >> audio shiznit is to use Solaris. I've done a bunch of homework and as
> >> far as I know there are NO other operating systems that can access this
> >> onboard audio hardware.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, my SPARCstation LX is my primary machine, and I've
> >been happily
> >running Debian Linux Slink 2.1 off of it for several months. 2.2 kernel,
> >and I frequently enjoy audio off of it (with the attached Sun Speaker
> >Box)... While it gets really choppy when you try and play an MP3
> >in stereo
> >44kHz mode, cutting it down to mono or 22kHz gets the job done.
> >
> > While support isn't as complete as other ports of Linux, or indeed
> >Slowaris, it's enough to accomplish its task (I can even adjust volume!)
> >
> > Just my $0.02.
> >
> > Have fun.
> >
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