[linux-audio-user] solaris 9 and audio recomendations

[kevin kelley]

This machine is a pci based sparc machine so I can run
a linux flavor on this machine. I got the conputer for
free  I would like to use it for audio if I can I am
not set on running solaris though.

Kevin Kelley 


--- Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> kevin kelley wrote:
> 
> >  I would like to run a sampler program and a good
> > sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
> > anyone have any recomendations??
> 
> You're going to have some real problems here.
> 
> Firstly, Solaris does not support OSS or ALSA; it
> has its own
> audio I/O architecure and few Linux audio programs
> are likely
> to support it.
> 
> Secondly, SUN ships its own drivers for the hardware
> it supports.
> You are unlikely to be able to get Solaris drivers
> for any third 
> party audio hardware.
> 
> However, if you were willing to run Linux on this
> machine and it
> had PCI, then you would have drivers and OSS and
> ALSA.
> 
> Just my AUS $0.02.
> 
> Erik
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