Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:22:43 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20000912142241.A30247@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sound and Network problems
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 11, Oliver Fleischmann wrote:
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> Hi there...
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> I have found some other things while playing around with SuSE Linux for
> Sparc on my Ultra 5.
>
> 1.
> When I start kscd it says "CD-ROM Lese- oder Zugriffsfehler. Bitte stellen
> Sie sicher, daß Sie Zugriffsberechtigung haben auf: /dev/cdrom" (in english:
> CD-ROM read- or access error. Please make sure that you have access rights
> on /dev/cdrom)
>
> The message appears regardless if i'm a user or root, and the rights of
> /dev/hdc (which is where /dev/cdrom points to) seem to be ok (changing them
> from 660 to 666 doesn't make a difference)
I don't have a Ultra 5. Looks like I need one, it seems to make the
most trouble.
On my Ultra AXe it works fine. And this configuration should be similar
to the Ultra 5.
>
> 2.
> When I start the CD playing manually by pressing the play button on the CD
> drive, the drive starts playing (LED is blinking), but I hear no sound. I
> can't modify the mixer settings for the cd audio channel, because
>
> 3.
> There seems to be no working audio mixer application. kmix displays a
> scrambled window (only as wide that I can see the Master volume control).
> Playing with the master volume, occasionally sound output (coming from kmp3)
> disappears. I have not found a way to reenable it.
Use audioctl. aumix should also work. kmix is not very good, sometimes
it works, sometimes not. The SPARC sound interface is very limited.
I hope to get ALSA working in the near future. The only real problem is
the 32bit userland <-> 64bit kernel space ioctl converter. It is a pain
with all this thousands of ioctls ALSA has.
>
> Maybe these three things are kernel issues?
I think it is a problem with the bad sound interface of SPARCs.
>
> 4.
> Mounting a samba share from my SuSE 6.2 x86 server doesn't work. After e.g.
> "mount -t smbfs -o username=oliver //server/public /mnt" I can see the
> mounted directory on /mnt, but all files and directories have the permission
> 000, so I can't open any file.
I will ask this our samba guru if he is back from vacation.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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