[Alsa-user] Problems with alsa on linux for sparc64

[Roger Z. <Rog...@ar...>]

Hi,

(if this should be sent to the developer list, please
give me a hint)

I've tested and installed alsa for the Maudio Transit USB.
Beside some design issues I've explained in a post half
an hour ago there are no problems with the device connected
to an Intel/P3 system.

Actually I'd like to operate the device connected to a Sun
5 ultra running linux (2.6.11.7). The kernel and modules are
self-compiled in 64bit. The alsa-packages are self compiled
two, but seem to be only 32bit (lib, utils etc.).

Everything *seems* to work as on the Intel box except

1) some compiler messages during compilation of alsa-lib:
... atomic mode not supported ...
but all files compiled and no errors.
 
2) startup, there were messages in the syslog
amixer ...ioctl32 ... Unknown Cmd

3) alsamixer works

4) aplay and alsaplayer were hanging in an ioctl
(from strace output)

www-search revealed, that 'modprobe snd_ioctl32'
should be executed before startup. I put this into
the init.d script without an improvement: the number
of ...ioctl...Unknown Cmd... messages reduces to two.
Still aplay hangs ...

someone experiencing similar problems ?

any hints welcome!

Roger