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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > "Religion is a magic device for turning unanswerable > questions into > unquestionable answers." -Art Gecko, Wombat > Discord-1, 128649 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
