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  • Fixing XMMS 1.2.7-1 for AIX 4.3.3.0 with Ultimedia Audio Adapter 7-6

    From Christian Holzapfel@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 5 23:15:04 2022
    XMMS 1.2.7-1 for AIX 4.3.3.0 doesn't work on my model 7013-59H, which is a Microchannel machine.
    The player stops with

    Open failure
    init failure
    Control Failure
    Start Failure
    FAILURE: stop failed. errno=0

    Searching this group, it looks like many people had the same problem about 20 years ago. Shame on me for using a 27 years old RISC computer for MP3 playback.
    However, here's the reason and solution:

    The XMMS RPM packages available for 4.3.3.0 from IBM's Toolbox for Linux Applications contains a /very/ basic audio output plugin libAIXout.so.0.0.0 which, after looking it up in the SRPM package, addresses a hardcoded sound device in /dev/paud0, which
    refers to PCI sound devices with the Crystal chipset only.
    MCA sound devices are rather located in /dev/baud0 (MCA sound devices with Crystal chipset like the Ultimedia 7-6) or /dev/acpa0 (MCA M-ACPA).

    So laying a soft link like

    ln -s /dev/baud0 /dev/paud0

    get's the job done pretty well.

    Remember, that if you drag your Ultimedia to another MCA slot, and don't fix the ODM database, it might come up as /dev/baud1 next time, so you have to renew your link.

    Enjoy!

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  • From home" @21:1/5 to Christian Holzapfel on Thu Jan 6 11:12:31 2022
    Christian Holzapfel wrote:
    XMMS 1.2.7-1 for AIX 4.3.3.0 doesn't work on my model 7013-59H, which is a Microchannel machine.

    Searching this group, it looks like many people had the same problem about 20 years ago. Shame on me for using a 27 years old RISC computer for MP3 playback.

    well, if you're able to listen to your MP3 while you're sitting on a 59H
    ... I mean noisewise :-)

    However, here's the reason and solution:

    thanks for the info anyway.

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