Nik Masloff wrote:
> So, I`ve upgraded to snv123. What happened:
> 
> cool
> - USB soundcard worked! yahooo! Songbird immediately began to use usb device 
> for output, in xmms I needed to tweak the output plugin.
> - movies with mplayer also could be used with USB soundcard. I used "mplayer 
> -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 ..."
> 
> not so cool
> - system is in highly loaded state, I dunno why it happens. Seems, like it`s 
> known problem. But in powertop I see this:
> 
> Top causes for wakeups:
> 59.1% (1000.0)                 <interrupt> :  uhci#1
> 
> could this be related to USB audio device?
> 
> - when I listen to music while browsing inet, or doing something apart from 
> listening, sound sometimes interrupts for a very short period of time. nice 
> -20 eradicates about 90% of this interrupts, but they still persist.
> 
> - how to tell firefox/flash to use USB audio? they still playing through 
> internal speakers.
AFAIK flash uses /dev/audio (SADA)

If you never want to use the internal speakers you can boot using
(Add to the end of the kernel boot line (with grub))

-B disable-audiohd=true

I have tried attempting to use libflashsupport.so


> - how to tell winxp in VirtualBox to use USB device? I see onl
y null/Solaris audio in VBox settings...

> 
> In general, seems like the USB audio devices are operational in recent 
> versions in Opensolaris, but not to the extent to be used for dj`ing due to 
> interrupts mentioned
  above.

> 
> But! This is a progress indeed - Garret, thank you for your efforts, kudos 
> goes to you in ohloh.net :)
> 
> Thank you

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