XMMS Solaris
Note! Please go to the XMMS site
as the Solaris code has been
integrated into the main source.
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There are only a few requirements to get XMMS and the plugin working under Solaris:
- A Solaris installation with X installed (CDE or OpenWindows are
fine). Any End-User install should have the correct files, although
you might need the Developer install to get some of the compiler tools
if you are compiling from source. I'm not sure what the minimum
version of Solaris is required, but it should work with at least
versions 2.5 and later.
- A sound card supported under Solaris. On Sparc systems, this
is the CS-4231 found in SS4's, SS5's and Ultra based computers and the
DBRI ISDN output devices. On intel Solaris, support is limited to
Sound Blaster devices (include SB Pro and AWE 32/64 cards). You can
get an unsupported driver for the SB PCI64/128 cards from http://www.tools.de/solaris/sbpci/.
The AMD device found in some older hardware is not supported as it only
operates at 8Hz using a-law or mu-law encoding, not PCM which XMMS
uses.
- If you want to compile from source, a working C compiler. Recent(-ish)
versions of gcc work fine; you can download a precompiled version from
the Sun freeware site.
Sun's workshop compiler does not (as yet) work correctly. However,
this should be fixed in future versions of the plugin. Other compilers
are unsupported, but may work.
- GLIB/GTK version 1.2.? or newer; source for these can be downloaded
from the GTK web site.
- gzip to uncompress either the source tarballs or the binary
packages. gzip comes with Solaris 8 or you can download a binary
packages from Sun
freeware
- A reasonable amount of shared memory. I haven't enumerated the
exact requirement, but the values in the FAQ
have been adequate for me. Remember you must reboot for the
changes to take effect.
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