Solaris 10 No Audio Emu10k1 SBLIVE

No Audio after installing Solaris 10 It was running on Linux and Windows for the same hardware.
Where can I find the Kernel driver list for Solaris?
Will Alsa run on Solaris? Where can I find the binaries or source for Solaris Alsa?

I realize this is ancient, but seeing as its the first thing that came up on Google I have to at least clear this up.
Solaris is derived from UNIX, so it uses the Open Sound System. This means that the OSS has to support the emu10k1 chip-set. Not only that, but at least with my card, special firmware has to be loaded too.
Windows has a special driver API specific to only Windows. Those drivers will not work on any system other than Windows and ReactOS.
Linux has the ALSA, which I'm assuming you know stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Please note the Linux part of that. I have never looked at the ALSA code so I cant say for certain if it is truly Linux only. I would assume not. If the ALSA were to support any other kernel, my guess would be that a BSD could first. You could try compiling the source's, but there's debate over which compiler to do this with.
I have heard various things about porting the ALSA over to non Linux systems. I feel like this could be far more work, and will definitely add far more complexity than it's worth. Rather than deal with porting a sound system, go and support the system we currently have. The recent development in the OSS has fixed the problems that lead to the ALSA's creation in first place.

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Performance hit in audio playback in Solaris 10

Hi,
I've noticed while trying out the Solaris 10 beta 72 that the audio playback quality took a major hit since Solaris 9. I was hoping that this would go away in the Solaris 10 release, but it's not the case.
If I try to play an .mp3 file with mpg123 or even audioplay an .au file, there are regular clicks in the playback, audible about twice per second. Booting into Solaris 9, the audio playback is perfect.
My intuition tells me that the integration of DTrace into the kernel is the culprit, but of course, I have no proof. Can anyone think of a way to test this theory? Can DTrace be disabled? Maybe DTrace can be used to figure out what's going on?
martin-dot-przyjazny-at-eds-dot-com

Hi,
I've noticed while trying out the Solaris 10 beta 72
that the audio playback quality took a major hit
since Solaris 9. I was hoping that this would go
away in the Solaris 10 release, but it's not the
case.
If I try to play an .mp3 file with mpg123 or even
audioplay an .au file, there are regular clicks in
the playback, audible about twice per second.
Booting into Solaris 9, the audio playback is
s perfect.
My intuition tells me that the integration of DTrace
into the kernel is the culprit, but of course, I have
no proof. Can anyone think of a way to test this
theory?You can be assured that DTrace is not the culprit. When DTrace is not running ("pgrep dtrace" to be sure), there is no effect on system performance.
Maybe DTrace can be
used to figure out what's going on?DTrace could certainly be used, but some basic facts would be helpful. As Juergen asked, which audio driver is this and on what machine? And how idle is the machine when audio playback is running? Is the machine power managed?
- Bryan
Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc

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Hi,
I've noticed while trying out the Solaris 10 beta 72
that the audio playback quality took a major hit
since Solaris 9. I was hoping that this would go
away in the Solaris 10 release, but it's not the
case.
If I try to play an .mp3 file with mpg123 or even
audioplay an .au file, there are regular clicks in
the playback, audible about twice per second.
Booting into Solaris 9, the audio playback is
s perfect.
My intuition tells me that the integration of DTrace
into the kernel is the culprit, but of course, I have
no proof. Can anyone think of a way to test this
theory?You can be assured that DTrace is not the culprit. When DTrace is not running ("pgrep dtrace" to be sure), there is no effect on system performance.
Maybe DTrace can be
used to figure out what's going on?DTrace could certainly be used, but some basic facts would be helpful. As Juergen asked, which audio driver is this and on what machine? And how idle is the machine when audio playback is running? Is the machine power managed?
- Bryan
Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc

Sblive problems

Hi all,
I am trying to get an SBLive soundcard which I have recently installed to work. I have a Gigabyte motherboard (NForce4) with onboard sound (AC97) which I have disabled. The SBLive has been used by me in another machine and works fine.
All the correct modules seem to load:
$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss 33408 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6400 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51984 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 50848 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1 121892 0
snd_rawmidi 21152 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 95136 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 2176 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 84100 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 7436 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 22148 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8840 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3840 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 7712 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 49124 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,
snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 8160 1 snd
But there is nothing in /proc:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---
Alsamixer bombs out with a unsurprising (in light of above) error:
$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
lspci shows the device:
$ /usr/sbin/lspci -v | grep -i audio
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
The wierd thing is that when I first installed it, I got these same sort of errors and symptoms, but then I updated the system with pacman, getting the latest udev (087-1) and kernel (2.6.15.6-2), after which I rebooted, and got sound! There was a /proc/asound/card0 entry, tested xmms and Doom3, all was fine. But a subsequent reboot resulted in the above symptoms again, and I have rebooted about 3 or 4 times since then (just in case!), but with no joy.
I have tried running /etc/start_udev with no result. I have also tried both forcing snd_emu10k1 in /etc/rc.conf, and disabling it and manually loading it later.
I was wondering if there is something basic I am neglecting?
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

Hi all,
I've managed to nail this one (I hope - I'll be checking /proc/asound/cards for several reboots now!)
A recurring entry in /var/log/kernel.log aroused my suspicion:
Mar 15 16:12:22 aquilonia ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:07.0 disabled
Mar 15 16:12:22 aquilonia EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:01:07.0 failed with error -5
Which prompted me to move the soundcard to another PCI slot. Now when I `cat /proc/asound/cards`, I get:
0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P]
SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P] (rev.5, serial:0x80401102) at 0xc000, irq 17
Sound now works (xmms is streaming from WickedKarma as I type 8) ), and it's survived two reboots so far!
I hope this helps anyone else who has a similar issue.
Regards,
Rob

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America's Army

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Dec 11 01:42:16 myhost kernel: emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8064 found, IO at 0xdf80-0xdf9f, IRQ 9
Dec 11 01:42:16 myhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: EMC40 (Unknown)
Dec 11 01:42:16 myhost kernel: emu10k1: SBLive! 5.1 card detected
Dec 11 01:42:43 myhost kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
Dec 11 01:51:15 myhost kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
Dec 11 01:51:15 myhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:07.
Dec 11 01:54:13 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:54:14 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xftaskbar4
Dec 11 01:54:14 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:54:14 myhost kernel: VM: killing process X
Dec 11 01:56:24 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:56:25 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xftaskbar4
Dec 11 01:56:28 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:56:34 myhost last message repeated 3 times
Dec 11 01:56:35 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xfce4-panel
Dec 11 01:56:35 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:56:58 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:56:59 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xfce-mcs-manage
Dec 11 01:57:06 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:57:07 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xfdesktop
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Dec 11 01:57:18 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:57:18 myhost kernel: VM: killing process dd
Dec 11 01:57:18 myhost kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Dec 11 01:57:18 myhost kernel: VM: killing process xfwm4
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Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: hcd.c: 01:0a.2: roothub graceful disconnect
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:0a.2-0 address 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:0a.2-2 address 2
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 2
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: ehci_hcd 01:0a.2: free_config 2 devnum 2
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: ehci_hcd 01:0a.2: free_config 0 devnum 1
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Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: ehci_hcd 01:0a.2: complete 19 unlink 0
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: ehci_hcd 01:0a.2: ehci_stop completed status 1000 Halt
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB bus 3 deregistered
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:0a.1-0 address 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB bus 4 deregistered
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:0a.0-0 address 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 01:0a.0-1 address 2
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 2
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 1
Dec 11 02:01:11 myhost kernel: usb.c: USB bus 5 deregistered
Dec 11 02:01:12 myhost kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver usb-storage
Dec 11 02:01:12 myhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts left.
Dec 11 02:01:12 myhost kernel: eth0: remaining active for wake-on-lan
Dec 11 09:48:30 myhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
I believe my memory is fine. I have 512 meg of ram and swap, for a total of a gig. More swap lyin around if I want to use it. It's the same swap I use on slack too.
I noticed the FAT error, but I'm sure that partition is fine. I use it in all linuxes, windows and freebsd just fine.
I haven't wiped the install yet in case you want something else from it.
About the alsa, I had all 4 packages installed, but modprobe claimed the snd_emu10k1 module did not exist. I'm fairly certain this is what I would need wouldn't it be?
Thanks,
Isamoor

Dell Inspiron 1525

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 (laptop) dual booting Vista and Solaris with GRUB. Yes, I read that Vista won't boot with GRUB. But when the machine rebooted so I could fix the MBR, it just worked. So, I didn't need to use BCDEDIT (and such).
All is well (in Solaris) except:
1) Audio
2) Wireless Net
3) Net
4) WebCam
1,2,4 are nice-to-have(s) for me. But, #3 is a need. I've read thru docs and installed the SKGEsol driver for the Marvell device. However, the device will not show-up in ifconfig. see...
http://homepage.mac.com/shaffer.david/dell_insp1520_net.tgz
[dump of commands and such]
Any advice is appreciated. And any info on #1,#2, and #4 is appreciated as well.
The device break-down is..
o Audio [SIGMATEL STAC 92XX]
o Cam [Creative Labs Laptop.. Web Cam]
o Wireless Net [Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN]
o Net [Marvell 88E80XX]
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Anyway, thanks in advance.
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Iprb & audio i810 problem In Solaris 10

I have installed solaris 10 06 in my vaio fs 640w,
[fal@~]$ uname -a
SunOS vaio 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
== N I C ==
The problem is that I cant get to work the NIC (intel pro 100 VE)
I have read some forums and faq (http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/6.html), I follow the instructions but my NIC doesnt work
[fal@/boot/solaris/devicedb]$ cat master |grep "PRO/100 VE"
pci8086,103d pci8086,103d net pci iprb.bef "Intel 82801DB PRO/100 VE Ethernet"
[root@~]$ cat /etc/driver_aliases |grep iprb
iprb "pci8086,1029"
iprb "pci8086,1229"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1009"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.100c"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1012"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1013"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1015"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1016"
iprb "pci8086,1229.8086.1017"
iprb "pci8086,1030"
iprb "pci8086,1031"
iprb "pci8086,1032"
iprb "pci8086,1038"
iprb "pci8086,1039"
iprb "pci8086,103d"
iprb "pci8086,2449"
[root@/boot/solaris]$ update_drv -a -i ' "pci8086,103d" ' iprb
("pci8086,103d") already in use as a driver or alias.
[root@/boot/solaris]$ ls /dev/ip*
/dev/ip /dev/ipauth /dev/ipl /dev/ipnat /dev/ipsecah /dev/ipstate
/dev/ip6 /dev/ipf /dev/iplookup /dev/ipscan /dev/ipsecesp /dev/ipsync
[root@/boot/solaris]$ ifconfig iprb0
ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: iprb0: no such interface
[root@/boot/solaris]$ ifconfig iprb
ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: iprb: no such interface
[root@/boot/solaris]$ ifconfig iprb1
ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: iprb1: no such interface
== A U D I O ==
The same. I have installed audio-1.8-i86pc.pkg
But I always get "There is not /dev/audioctl "
in /dev there is nothing refered to audio
[root@~]$ cat /etc/driver_aliases |grep audioi810
audioi810 "pci8086,2415"
audioi810 "pci8086,2425"
audioi810 "pci8086,2435"
audioi810 "pci8086,2445"
audioi810 "pci8086,7195"
audioi810 "pci1039,7012"
audioi810 "pci1022,7445"
What can I do to get that works?
Any help is welcome
Advancing thanks
Message was edited by:
zPu

I have an audio810 chip, have you tried my numbers listed in above post 8086,24d5
also here is selected output from prtconf -v
name='compatible' type=string items=7
value='pci8086,24d5.1014.2c7.2' + 'pci8086,24d5.1014.2c7' + 'pci1014,2c7' + 'pci8086,24d5.2' + 'pci8086,24d5' + 'pciclass,040100' + 'pciclass,0401'
name='model' type=string items=1
value='Audio device'
This page may give you a solution if the above does not work.
http://blogs.sun.com/PotstickerGuru/entry/solaris_x86_hardware_shopping
In Brief:
Solaris 10 and later supports most Intel Spec AC'97 audio, VIA 823x Audio, and some legacy Sound Blaster stuff. That covers about half of all the audio on most boards these days. There are still a few boards with AC'97 audio which the Solaris included install media won't recognize, and there is the new class of High Definition or HD Audio chips. For folks with an unknown AC'97 type of audio controller/codec combination (read your spec sheet or prtconf -pv and find the PCI vendor and device ID and web search that device to find out what it supports), most likely, you have a good chance if you download Jurgen Keil's audio drivers and install them. Jurgen supplies his own versions of VIA and AC97 Intel audio drivers. These have different module names and will not clobber the existing drivers, and his installation package does a good job of pruning and transferring PCI vendor and device IDs to his driver control where both the Sun drivers collide with his drivers. Jurgen's drivers are especially useful with some AC97 codecs that have a non-standard sample rate conversion hardware. Where the Sun audio810 driver fails, or takes a huge performance hit going with a software sample rate converter (am_src module), Jurgen's driver allows one to compute the proper sample rate and set it as a configurable in the /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/audioi810.conf which usually gets the driver to play audio at the proper speed. The information on how to do this is actually in the .conf file itself and has come in handy on a Compaq motherboard with Intel 815 chipset and AC97 audio. Jurgen's VIA drivers eat a bit more memory for buffer space, but lower the interrupt rate dramatically, eliminating almost any hiccups on some very slow first-gen EPIA 500 fanless C3 mini-ITX systems and allow those to play flawless audio.
good luck

Solaris 10 x86 5/08 audio driver for SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio

Hello out there, I recently installed Solaris 10 x86 5/08 on my IBM ThinkPad T60 (2007-63U) and I'm really impressed how well it is working.
The only thing I've found not working so far is the audio.
I've installed the Solaris Audio Drivers 1.0 from:
http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Hardware%20Drivers&tab=3&subcat=Audio%20Devices
...but it still is not recognizing the audio device.
Everything else is working great (thank you Sun and the OpenSolaris Community!!!!!!!), so getting the audio working would be even better.
Any pointers anyone has on what to look for on the system (e.g. in /var/adm/messages) or how to configure the audio to support the SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio would be greatly appreciated.

...well, I've tried building oss-v4.0-build1016-src-cddl but I haven't been able to get it to work.
In preparation for the build, I did install Sun Studio 12 (from http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/index.jsp ), patched it, and installed gawk-3.1.6 ( from http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexintel10.html ) and ran configure/make install as instructed which successfully completed.
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rem_drv osscore
rem_drv hdaudio
rem_drv ossusb
rem_drv sadasupport
Driver (osscore) not installed.
unloaded osscommon
add_drv -m '* 0666 root sys' osscore
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Sdtaudio on Solaris 8 on Sparc - CD-ROM audio not available

I'm runnning Solaris 8 on an UltraSparc 1. I am trying to play audio from
my CD-ROM through the internal speakers. I have xmcd installed and working
and it recognizes and plays CDs, but audio isn't being routed to the
internal speakers. When I open sdtaudio (the audio tool) I notice that the
CD-ROM is greyed out/unavailable as a sound source.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious; can anyone help? How can I select
the CD-ROM as a sound source?

You can find some help here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2192/products_qanda_item09186a008009483b.shtml

Audio in Solaris 10 release 08/07

Hello
I have just installed Solaris 10 release 08/07,After i installed successfully i noticed that it is not supportiing Audio that is when i clicked on the icon it is showing message like no audio device found and "/dev/audioctl" and further "/dev/sound". I don't know how to rectify this.
My System:
Lenovo 3000H 8789 Q62
And Audio Vendor:
Realtek ALC655
Audio configuration using "prtconf -pv" :
Node 0x00000b
assigned-addresses: 81001710.00000000.0000e800.00000000.00000100.81 001714.00000000.0000ec00.00000000.00000080
reg: 00001700.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.01001710.00000000 .00000000.00000000.00000100.01001714.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000080
compatible: 'pci1039,7012.1019.6666.a0' + 'pci1039,7012.1019.6666' + 'pci1019,6666' + 'pci1039,7012.a0' + 'pci1039,7012' + 'pciclass,040100' + 'pcic lass,0401'
model: 'Audio device'
power-consumption: 00000001.00000001
fast-back-to-back:
devsel-speed: 00000001
interrupts: 00000003
max-latency: 0000000b
min-grant: 00000034
subsystem-vendor-id: 00001019
subsystem-id: 00006666
unit-address: '2,7'
class-code: 00040100
revision-id: 000000a0
vendor-id: 00001039
device-id: 00007012
name: 'pci1019,6666'
I'm completely new to this platform. So please help me in datailed way.
Expecting your Replies.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Edited by: selavkumar_ss on Sep 28, 2007 9:31 PM

First of all there is a special doc DVD for Solaris 10 u4 (listed on the same page as installation DVD)
Second - "release notes" stuff is always located on docs.sun.com
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-1259
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0181

Porting Solaris 7 audio driver to Solaris 8.

I am trying to load solaris 7 audio driver on solaris 8. It is not working.
Also I have recompiled drivers codes on solaris 8 still not working. Something must have changed in the audio interface from solaris 8 to solaris 7. Can anyone help me to find these changes. Thanks

This could be a big headache....but if there is a need to upgrade your OS from 7 to 8
then you should be ready for a good backup plan....meaning, if something goes wrong at any
point in the process, you could easily revert back to your old system environment.
If I were the one to do this, I will do the following.
1) I will make use of mirroring. It will be good if you could do it for the entire filesystem
of your OS and your DB.
2) Once I have a mirror, I will simply detach the other mirror and do my upgrade.
Anything goes wrong, I will simply make use of the other mirror to have my old system back.
When you upgrade your OS from 7 to 8, I had seen lots of problem where it could not complete the
process. And the reason is the size of the Filesystem for Solaris 8 specially the root requires
a big size as to any previous version. i usually just install from scratch. But the problem is if
your filesystem for the OS and Applications like your DB are crossing each other then you may have
to rebuilt your Applications too. Unless you had partition them such that they are totally separated.
When you had succesfully installed your Solaris 8, then your next headache is to make sure
all your applicatiions including your DB will be running fine with the new OS. Usually they
would not as they may need to be patched. So that means you have to check the Oracle websites
as for what are the patches needed to make your Oracle runs properlly in the new OS.
Most important is your backup plan, which is your mirrored-disk of your running environment.
Also you have to make a Plan of everything. Doing this will really take a lot of time.
Good luck. I have done this before.....I'm pretty sure you could do it.
just remember , your back-up plan should always be available anytime.

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