Open Sound System

Hi all,

I've a Creative Labs Audigy model no:.sb0570 chipset CA0106-WATLF. I thought this one work on Solaris 10 (Sparc). But it doesn't. Actually OSS detects the soundcard, but I just get noises as soon as the driver is loaded. What am I missing?

Thanks
Fjodor

fjodor wrote:Hi all,

I've a Creative Labs Audigy model no:.sb0570 chipset CA0106-WATLF. I thought this one work on Solaris 10 (Sparc). But it doesn't. Actually OSS detects the soundcard, but I just get noises as soon as the driver is loaded. What am I missing?

Thanks
Fjodor

You should go for the Audigy2 ZS device. Not all Audigy CA106 devices work on Solaris - we have the original AudigLS and SBLive 5.1 and SBLive 7.1 working.



best regards
Dev Mazumdar

fjodor wrote:Hi all,

I've a Creative Labs Audigy model no:.sb0570 chipset CA0106-WATLF. I thought this one work on Solaris 10 (Sparc). But it doesn't. Actually OSS detects the soundcard, but I just get noises as soon as the driver is loaded. What am I missing?

Thanks
Fjodor

I have the same card (SoundBlaster Audigy Value) - Board reads model SB0570,
and have the same problem under Solaris 10 x86, when sound is played, all is audible
is a very loud hiss/white noise sound.

A bug in the driver perhaps? now that I can see numerous people have reported the same thing.

using: oss-solaris-v4.0rc2-170-i386.pkg

Yeah, just wanted to say that I am having exactly the same problem on x86. White noise.

Funnily enough I do think that it actually worked the very 1st time that I installed it, until I rebooted my machine. At that point it failed and has failed ever since.

ahyes wrote:

fjodor wrote:Hi all,

I've a Creative Labs Audigy model no:.sb0570 chipset CA0106-WATLF. I thought this one work on Solaris 10 (Sparc). But it doesn't. Actually OSS detects the soundcard, but I just get noises as soon as the driver is loaded. What am I missing?

Thanks
Fjodor

I have the same card (SoundBlaster Audigy Value) - Board reads model SB0570,
and have the same problem under Solaris 10 x86, when sound is played, all is audible
is a very loud hiss/white noise sound.

A bug in the driver perhaps? now that I can see numerous people have reported the same thing.

using: oss-solaris-v4.0rc2-170-i386.pkg

Please post the output from ossinfo (or cat /dev/sndstat)


regards
Dev Mazumdar

I am running Solaris 10 on x86. I am hearing the same white noise.


bash-3.00$ cat /dev/sndstat
OSS 4.0rc2 (build 172/200610021821) (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-2006

**** UNREGISTERED VERSION ****

This OSS version will expire after: Apr 2007

Audio devices:
0: AudigyLS front
Opened OUT by: 0 @ 48000/48000 Hz Fragment: 4096/384000 (10.6 msec)
1: AudigyLS center/lfe (GRC3)
2: AudigyLS record (GRC3)
3: AudigyLS surround (GRC3)
4: AudigyLS 5.1 output
5: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #1 (GRC3)
6: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #2 (GRC3)
7: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #3 (GRC3)
8: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #4 (GRC3)
9: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #5 (GRC3)
10: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #6 (GRC3)
11: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #7 (GRC3)
12: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #8
Opened OUT by: gnome-settings-/0 @ 48000/48000 Hz Fragment: Not started
13: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #1 (GRC3)
14: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #2 (GRC3)
15: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #3 (GRC3)
16: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #4 (GRC3)

MIDI devices:
*** MIDI support not available in this OSS version ***

Mixers:
0: AudigyLS Mixer
1: Virtual Mixer


NOTICE! This /dev/sndstat file is obsolete - use the ossinfo command instead
bash-3.00$ ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.0rc2 (build 172/200610021821) (0x00040000)

Number of audio devices: 17
Number of MIDI devices: 0
Number of mixer devices: 2


Device objects
0: ossaudios0 SADA compatibility layer
1: audigyls0 AudigyLS
2: oss0 OSS core services
3: midiloop0 OSS MIDI loopback driver
4: ossusb0 USB audio/MIDI device
5: softoss0 OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0

MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)

Mixer devices (/dev/mixer*)
0: AudigyLS Mixer (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
1: Virtual Mixer (Mixer 0 of device object 5)

Audio devices (/dev/dsp*)
0: AudigyLS front (audio port 0 of device object 1)
1: AudigyLS center/lfe (audio port 1 of device object 1)
2: AudigyLS record (audio port 2 of device object 1)
3: AudigyLS surround (audio port 3 of device object 1)
4: AudigyLS 5.1 output (audio port 4 of device object 1)
5: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #1 (audio port 0 of device object 5)
6: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #2 (audio port 1 of device object 5)
7: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #3 (audio port 2 of device object 5)
8: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #4 (audio port 3 of device object 5)
9: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #5 (audio port 4 of device object 5)
10: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #6 (audio port 5 of device object 5)
11: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #7 (audio port 6 of device object 5)
12: OSS Virtual Mixer v3.0 Playback CH #8 (audio port 7 of device object 5)
13: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #1 (audio port 8 of device object 5)
14: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #2 (audio port 9 of device object 5)
15: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #3 (audio port 10 of device object 5)
16: Virtual Mixer Loopback Record CH #4 (audio port 11 of device object 5)
bash-3.00$

Is there any other information that you would want?