First Campus Seminar

I presented he introductory seminar in college today. An audience of 100-120 turned up, including many faculty members.

 I outlined the various benefits that students have from the SAI program. Many students, especially the 2nd year students showed interest in learning Java and implementing a project. (Of course the grand prize of an Ipod helped, too)

 Here's a picture of the event:

Many had questions as to how they go about the activities, I've answered the queries below.

Sound on Solaris

Remember when you installed solaris. It was quite.. really quite. Wasnt it?

Ok maybe not for you, you have that soundblaster sound card, supported out-of-box.

But the less fortunate of us have an intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) card. Now if you happen to wander accidentally to http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html, you’ll scroll down and see some o/p like:

Note that the 3rd line from below. That card ain't supported .. And that’s my card

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Generating reports…

Vendor Device: Type Name Solaris Driver: 32BIT 64BIT
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nVidia Corpora… V NV43 [Geforce Go 6600TE/6200TE] Y Y
Marvell Techno… N 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Contro… T-1 N
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation U 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) U… Y Y
Intel Corporation N PRO/Wireless 2200BG N N
Texas Instruments O PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller Y Y
Texas Instruments F OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Y Y
Intel Corporation M 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) A… N N
Intel Corporation O 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) A… N N
Intel Corporation S 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller Y Y

Driver Notes:
Y - Solaris Driver Found; T - Third Party Driver; N - No Solaris Driver
Device Types:
V - Video; N - Network; S - Storage; M - Multimedia; U - USB; F - Firewire;
O - Other;

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So how did I get sound on my box?

goto http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/beta/ , download the 1.9b sound driver, and pkgadd it as explained at the site.

You still wont have sound. Give a
#update_drv -a -i ‘”pci8086,266e”‘ audioi810
(yes thats a single quote, double quote, pci…, double quote, single quote)

Restart and sound away to glory.

A thanks goes out to Juergen Keil for the drivers and his help in getting it working on my box.