[brandz-discuss] Sound in lx brandz

[Bob Netherton]

> My question is, how does sound in brandz really work? I've installed OSS in OpenSolaris and it seems to work so far. I've also enabled sound in zonecfg.


Ed did the work on this one.  Two pseudo devices (/dev/dsp
and /dev/mixer) are created.  The lx brand translation layer
maps the ioctls to these devices to their Solaris OSS
conterparts - when the audio zone attribute is set to true.

> Do I have to install the OSS drivers also in the Linux Zone?

No.  Applications that understand OSS should work without modification.
Since you don't have a Linux kernel underneath, the drivers wouldn't
work (although sometimes you do have to install them to satisfy
dependencies for things in user space that you do care about).



Bob