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- From: Kall@Mayo.EDU
- Subject: Re: SS10 to play CD's through audio box...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.155924.8609@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation
- References: <1993Jan26.210433.29085@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:59:24 GMT
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- In article 29085@afterlife.ncsc.mil, mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Mark Belangee) writes:
- >I have the x_cdplayer program on my Sparc 10, what I'd like to be
- >able to do is to play the audio thru that really neat speaker that
- >was included with the machine.. Any ideas? Or is there a new program
- >out there written for this case?
- >
- >Thanks
- >Mark Belangee
-
- I received this from my local Sun SE regarding the Sun Speakerbox:
-
- >I have just received a SS10 with a speaker box. Is there
- >any trick in piping the output of a Sun CD to the speaker
- >box.
-
- Inside the speaker box is a MMCodec chip that has multiple
- inputs and outputs (serial bus, line input, microphone are
- inputs; speaker, line, headphone are outputs). The routing
- of which is active is acomplished under software control
- via ioctl's to /dev/audio. I believe that "audiotool" will be
- enhanced in future releases to provide a GUI interface to
- allow us "mortal users" to do what you desire without programming
- at such a low level.
-
- >Are the mute,volume up, and volume down keys on the Type 5
- >keyboard supposed to control the speaker box.
-
- This is much the save as above, future OS releases will catch
- the key strokes and send instructions to the MMCodec chip to
- perform the task. It's a case of the hardware features being
- a bit ahead of the software. Same with the power on/off key.
- The SS10 power supply can be controlled by the CPU but it will
- take a bit for the software to catch up to the underlying
- functionality built into the hardware. The good news is that
- the features are in the hardware to do some of these interesting
- things in the future.
-
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