On 12/04/07, N. L. Barna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi friends,
I just received and installed Solaris Express, Developer Edition, and I don't
know what I'm doing.
I'm on an x86 system and converted from XP. Everything seems fine except now I
don't have sound. The sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy 2. I found this site
http://www.tools.de/opensource/solaris/audio/beta/
for a possible driver (likely audioemu in my case). It says I need to unpack
and download the file with bunzip2, which I didn't think I had so I went to
this site
http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
and downloaded the source tarball.
The problem is I don't know what I'm doing when I'm "extracting" these things.
When I think I've extracted something, then there are all these files from which I don't
comprehend and so don't know how to execute or install [i]the[/i] program. I'm probably
lost due to my poor conditioning with automated installers.
I deeply appreciate any help.
I suggest using the OpenSound driver instead, not because the one you
have won't work, but because the OpenSound driver has a better mixer,
etc.:
http://www.opensound.com/
Plus, the install is dead easy. It's free for personal use.
As far as decompressing that file, you should be able to do something like:
bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
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