Sound coming from internal speaker

Hi all,I have solaris 10 installed on my ultra 60 but when I play music or enable sounds in gnome all sounds are coming from the internal speaker, not from the speakers I connected. How can I enable the 'good' speakers instead of the hardware speakers?

[282 byte] By [wijnand-bsd] at [2007-11-26 0:43:52]

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# 1

Run sdtaudiocontrol, deselect the built-in speaker and selectthe line-out connector for sound output.

JuergenKeil at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

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# 2

Thanks.Ok, that works but the sound is very distorted. Any idea?

wijnandbsd at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

# 3

No idea, other than lowering output volume in sdtaudiocontrol,

and increasing it on external set of speakers (assuming the

external speakers have a volume control).

What kind of audio application are you trying to use?

Does audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/sample.au

play correct?

JuergenKeil at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

# 4

That sample plays reasonable well, although I don't think it was recorded in good quality.When I play music it sounds awfull, especially when a lot of bass is involved.

wijnandbsd at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

# 5

Make sure you are using the appropriate output from the U60's audio output module.

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Miscellaneous/MISC_Audio_Mod.html# 4155

If you are using the headphone output to connect to a pair of amplified speakers, you are over driving them, and you will eventually fry them.

Misc_Screen_Name at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

# 6

thanks for your replies.I just installed xmms and now it sounds good, strange.maybe it is a problem with the 'Java media player' app.

wijnandbsd at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

# 7

Is there a way to save the sdtaudiocontrol settings so that they come up that way every time?

I get tired of turning off the internal speaker and turning on the external output after I logout or reboot.

I've been using Solaris 9 and Gnome 2.0 and will shortly finish upgrading the workstation to Solaris 10 SJD. I have no reason to expect that the new S10 with SJD will behave differently than the older version.

FrozenOne at 2007-7-5 19:39:31 >

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