I solved my problem ... at least to the largest part! So in case anyone runs into the same problem on RHEL 5 and/or CentOS 5 - here is how I solved it (well ... 95% of it)
Google for "Dag Wiers", "EPEL", FreshRPMs, Dries, NewRPMS, and "Planet CCRMA" => these are extra-repos for RHEL 5 and/or CentOS. Google knows them all. Read the install instructions for each of these repos carefully. If you get "404" errors when you try to run "yum update" check the affected *.repo file, in most cases it's enough if you replace the variable names they sometimes put in there manually with the correct value. e.g. the "PlanetCCRMA" repos had a line saying something like baseurl=http://........ /$baserelease/$basearch For some stupid reasons the variables would not resolve correctly on RHEL 5, so I replaced the variables manually with this: baseurl=http://....... /5/i386 After this it should work. So once I got "yum" working correctly with all of the above repos I simply installed these packages: gstreamer-plugin-bad gstreamer-plugin-ugly These packages pulled in lots of other dependencies (faad, ffmpeg, + dozens of other packages). Then install any MP3 player, e.g. yum install amarok exaile ... To install both "Amarok" and "Exaile". Now when I open any MP3 file I can definitely hear it playing correctly on the DTU's speakers!! I have still no sound on YouTube but I don't really care so much about that. Probably it's just another extra-package that is missing (e.g. "flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound" ??? I didn't bother to search for it yet on RHEL or CentOS ...) but as far as I am concerned this problem is solved ... at least for me :-) I thought I post this here in case anyone runs into this thread via Google .... Thanks to all + best regards, DJM. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM, scorp123 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I seem to have a similar problem to that was described by William > Goodman in this posting: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11023.html > > > My setup: > > - RHEL 5.2 i386 running on a Sun Ultra 20 > - CentOS 5.2 i386 on the same machine (dual boot; for testing purposes) > - SRSS 4.1 on both partitions; works tip top with both distros (except > for the sound problem) > - Sun Ray DTU's: Sun Ray 2, Sun Ray 170 and Sun Ray 270 ... I > experience the same problem on all of them > > > The symptoms that I experience: > > - normal applications seem to produce no sound (e.g. there is no sound > in Firefox, YouTube, etc.) > - I get the same problem on both RHEL 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 (on the > bright side: this really seems to prove that CentOS is 1:1 compatible > with RHEL, even errors are reproducible 1:1 :-) ...) > - GNOME's volume control applet is being loaded but right-clicking on > it and then selecting "Open Volume Control Ctrl+O" produces this > error message: > "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found." > (clicking on "Close" removes the message again). This too happens on > both RHEL and CentOS ... > > - Environment variables are being set though: > $ env | grep AUDIO > AUDIODEV=/tmp/SUNWut/dev/utaudio/utdsp-0 > UTAUDIODEV=/tmp/SUNWut/dev/utaudio/utdsp-0 > > - going into the "Sound" preferences via the menu: " System > > Preferences > Sound " > ... and then going to "Sound Events" (which is set to 'Autodetect') > and clicking the "Test" button there it might produce a distorted > sound the first time I click the button (this does not always happen), > but on the second and all subsequent clicks it then produces the > normal GNOME test sound you're supposed to hear. > > - going to the "Sounds" tab and clicking on the 'play' button of any > of the preset sound events there produces no sound though, e.g. I can > click on "Question dialog:", "Warning message:", and so on, but > instead of hearing any of the configured *.wav files all I get is > silence. > > > I'd be thankful for tips on how to resolve this :) > > Thanks in advance! > > > DJM. / Switzerland > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
