Thanks for the info.  After struggling to get /dev/audio support
working on other hardware with other operating systems, 
this is quite refreshing.  As usual, NetBSD seems to do it better 
than anyone else.     

--Glendon Gross

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, matthew green wrote:

> 
>    
>    To my delight, after building a kernel with sound support enabled
>    for the SS2 and rebuilding all devices, I am able to cat
>    files to /dev/audio and I can hear the sound!
> 
>    Now I'm going to see if I can use software like mpg123 to decode
>    files.... I'm not sure what the limitations are, but at 25 Mhz I won't
>    be too surprised if compressed audio is a challenge.
> 
> 
> audio has been supported on the sparc port since virtually forever,
> for the sun4c-class machines.  the CPU in the SS2 is actually 40mhz,
> but the problem you'll find is that the audio is 8bit 8000mhz mono,
> "phone" quality, not 16bit 44.1k stereo "cd" quality that the audio
> in more recent sparcs have.  i think mpg123 has an option to downsize
> the sample, i think see the port-sparc web page for details.
> 
> 
> .mrg.
>