Just to follow up, on a whim I decided to try power cycling the box... and
now it works great.  Strange.

For a while I was frustrated that I couldn't turn off the damn internal
speaker, but I decided to do it the old fashioned way... I popped off the
case and pulled the speaker leads.

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> > I've managed to get NetBSD going on an old SS5.  It's finding the
> > audio devices ok when it boots (audiocs0 and audio0) but all
> > attempts to play audio result in static that's typical of using
> > the wrong number of bits, or possibly the wrong byte order.
> > Directing audio apps to use 8 bits works better, but then the
> > sound sounds highly overdriven.
>
> Are you sending audio to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp?
>
> /dev/audio only supports catting .au files to it AFAIK, whereas
> /dev/dsp supports variable rates, and of course stereo (wooh!).
> The best test is using mpg123 to play an mp3, or sox (if its in
> pkgsrc) to "play" a wav file of some description.  They will
> default to using /dev/dsp.
>
> My SS5/110 is currently acting as an mp3 player which it does a
> rather excellent job of!!
>
> > Audioctl reports the device name as "cs4231" version "x".
>
> Same with mine.
>
> > Does anyone have some pointers on what I should tweak to resolve
> > this problem or has anyone else had the same trouble?
>
> Not personally!  It just "worked" which is a rare thing in
> computing these days... /me stares at bill gates!
>
> HtH,
>
> - Chris.
>

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