[Asterisk-Users] Fwd: Asterisk on Solaris 10 (AMD Opteron, Sun Fire X2100)

[Steve Kennedy]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:16:06AM -0500, Alexander Burke wrote:

> Hello, Steve!
> At 03:55 AM 02/21/2006, you wrote:
> >ztdummy was only used for timing. Linux 2.6 provides this function in
> >the kernel and I assume Solaris already has timing functions there.
> Page 36 of Asterisk: The Future Of Telephony 
> (O'Reilly Press) states that you either require a 
> Digium PCI card to provide clocking, or ztdummy 
> if you "lack the PCI hardware required to provide 
> timing". It goes on to mention that a UHCI USB 
> controller was required pre-2.6 but now that 
> there's a 1kHz clocking source in the kernel, 
> ztdummy will attach to that instead, thus 
> eliminating the requirement for the UHCI USB controller.
> While it doesn't explicity say so, it seems to 
> very strongly imply that either a PCI card or 
> ztdummy are *required* for some Asterisk 
> functionality (namely music-on-hold and 
> conferencing, apparently). Is this actually not the case?

OK, that's not what I inferred - but you could be right?

Is there a definative answer on this, or I'll have to go and re-install
a test system ;)


Steve

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