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Update Date:2009-09-23
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Solution  1008669.1 :   Sun Blade[TM] 1000: Unable to play audio cd's on Sun Blade 1000  


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The cdplayer software looks like it's playing normally (you can see the track being played), but you cannot hear any sound. Normal sound through /dev/audio works fine.

On most systems you can listen to CD audio in a couple of ways. One way is through the headphone jack on the cdrom drive itself. The other is to connect a cable from the back of the cdrom drive and run it internally to the sound card or audio module. Most PC's and some sun-systems (SPARCstation(R)-4/5, Ultra[TM] 5 and Ultra[TM] 10) implement this cable. The problem with the Sun Blade[TM] 1000 (and possibly other Sun systems) is that the DVD-ROM that is shipped with it doesn't have a headphone jack. And you can't use the cable method because while there is a cable connection on the back of the DVD-ROM, there is no cable connection on the audio module (part #501-4155).

Because all future Sun Desktops will be configured without this cable, the only way to play audio is to incorporate a cd player application that can play the cd tracks digitally and pass the output through /dev/audio. An updated version of the cd player " xmcd " is such an application that can do this. It can be installed from the Solaris[TM] 9 companion CD (SFWxmcd, requires SFWlestf and SFWncur) or can be downloaded from the official xmcd website:

http://www.amb.org/xmcd/



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Sun Blade 2000 Workstation

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With xmcd
must choose (click on) cdda playback
must have latest kernel patch
check shared memory (see read-me with xmcd app)
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updated by : Anthony Serafica
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2a0b1052-0a18-11d6-9854-d945df5eb308|Sun Blade 1000 Workstation
0be55d30-2c89-4d9b-8027-344c808940d9|Sun Blade 2000 Workstation

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