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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris Newbie questions... Post 302267621 by GeekMasterFlash on Friday 12th of December 2008 10:41:04 PM

12-12-2008

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Solaris Newbie questions...

Hello everyone, I am brand spanking new to both Solaris and Unix. I thought I would give it a go after buying a SB2500 off ebay for a few hundred dollars.

I am having some issues that I am not sure how to correct, and I am wondering if I can get a few pointers?

The first one is that my system has two hard drives, once which I wiped clean and installed the OS on and the other which contains my entire MP3 collection. Solaris tells me that the first disk is c0t0d0 and that second is c0t1d0. The first disk is formatted in zfs (fresh install of solaris) and the other is UFS. How would I mount the second disk as /music without formatting the drive?

My second problem is with sound. This machine has two sound cards. I tried to remove the one that came with the SB2500 but it caused errors. So I left it in, my other card is PCI. It is a Hercules Game Theater XP. I checked with the Solaris 10 HCL and it says that this card should work. Right now, the blade defaults to an internal speaker. When I run /usr/dt/bin/sdtaudiocontrol I can switch to the card that came with the blade however I can't get sound with the GT XP card.

Can anyone help me?

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randomsound

RANDOMSOUND(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    RANDOMSOUND(8)

NAME

       randomsound - ALSA sound card related entropy gathering daemon.

SYNOPSIS

       randomsound [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Using  the  low	order bit of the ADC output of your sound card, randomsound gathers entropy, debiases it and offers it up to your kernel's
       random pool. It can be tweaked to only write into the pool when it drops below a certain level, and to back  off  once  the  pool  is  full
       enough.	This build will set your sound card into 16 bit mono unsigned input at 8KHz.  If your sound card cannot do that then you will need
       to change the defines in asoundrunner.c and recompile the package. You must have set up asound as root on your machine. This  can  be  done
       with the asoundconf tool and its set-default-card command.

       You  may  also need to use the alsamixer to ensure that the sound card is generating plenty of noise. Set all the gains nice and high, turn
       on any boosters you have. If you have a V_REFLVL or similar then consider tweaking that.

OPTIONS

       -D     Daemonize

       -v     Increase verbosity. Can be used more than once.

       -m     specify minimum number of bits of entropy in the pool.

       -M     specify max number of bits in the pool.

       -b     specify number of bytes of randomness to buffer for use.

       -d     specify number of bytes to deposit into the pool each time.

       -h     display help message

       -V     display version information.

AUTHOR

       randomsound was written by Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>

Pepperfish							  August 18, 2007						    RANDOMSOUND(8)