[rescue] Cycle 5 Board Upgrades, Found Reseller

[Mike Nicewonger]

I suspect the audio hardware is the same as the SS2 which would mean 8 bit
which I am sure would upset mpg123

Mike N

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> While on the topic of the Cycle-5 I have a quick question:
> 
> I have (or rather a friend of mine has) a Cycle-5/170 that we installed Sol8
> on. It works great with one small problem. We can't seem to get the audio
> working. mpg123 complains about /dev/audio and no sound comes from the machine.
> We assumed that perhaps the Cycle just didn't have the audio hardware, and left
> it at that. Then one day my friend was surfing the web with netscape, and went
> to a site that had audio, and he nearly jumped out of his seat when music
> started coming out of the cycle! Judging by the audio connector on the machine
> (similar to that on some of the sun4c machines) does that mean that it doesn't
> have the same audio as most sun4m machines? If not, how do we get it to work
> with programs like mpg123? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Oh, and one other question: I have a similar machine. but it appears to be
> dead. the led never comes on, and nothing else happens. What would be a good
> place to start looking for problems? I've replaced the ram in the machine
> thinking maybe it was bad, but that didn't seem to do anything. Again, any help
> would be appreciated.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> 
> > While Bodoman has always been fine to deal with IMHO, they are the folks
> > posting those horribly misleading ads for things like the pair of SM-100's
> > and the SS-10 VSIMMs for your SS-20.
> >
> > Go figure.
> >
> > Mike N
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zach Malone" <Diff at Mac.com>
> > To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:38 PM
> > Subject: [rescue] Cycle 5 Board Upgrades, Found Reseller
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >     I found a reseller selling Cycle 5 board upgrades for the SPARCstation
> > 2.  They are selling them with 100 mhz chips for 60$ a board.
> > www.Bodoman.com is their URL, but they do not have the boards listed on
> > their site.  Contact them via email or phone to order.  Upon calling, I got
> > the impression that it is a fairly decent sized operation, and that they can
> > be trusted, but I have not recieved my board yet (ordered 10 minutes ago) so
> > I cannot make any definate comments yet.
> >     Zach
> >
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