Sound on an Ultra 5 2.6.7

[DeadlyMuffin]

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered before, I'm having some trouble searching the forums.

I'm running an Ultra 5 with the development-sources kernel, 2.6.7, and everything works, except for sound. Alsa support is compiled in, with OSS emulation and the driver for the sound on Ultra 5s, CS something I believe.

XMMS doesn't work at all in OSS mode, and using esound it plays twice as fast as it should, and very crackily. If someone could share their kernel config and settings, that'd be awesome. I'm getting really frusterated with this thing.

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The cs4231 sound driver for the onboard chip in most recent Sparcs (from SS10/20 on) is broken in 2.6 kernels, use a 2.4 kernel. The OSS driver in xmms doesn't really work that well for me, I use esound. Couple of notes/issues:

1) XMMS' oss driver will work if you fire up the esd driver first, play something (no real length is needed - it's the playback parameters being set that matters), then switch to OSS and it will work. I filed a XMMS bug about this and it apparently isn't being dealt with.

2) The esound driver has a race condition that really seems to manifest itself often on my Ultra 1, resulting in an error when playback starts/switches to another track. There's a patch in a xmms bug that adds some retries to the esound driver as a hack to more or less avoid this just by brute force. I can find the bug number for you if you want the patch.

[DeadlyMuffin]

Would it be possible then to run a pci sound card? I'd really like to have sound on this machine, but I want to stick with 2.6, mostly for the better cd-burning support (no more scsi emulation).

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