I have a sparc 1 and a i386 w/ Sound Blaster 16 (dsp 3.0something) and I ca=
nnot
get sound to work on either of them..

1) cat blah.au >/dev/audio doesnt work.

If I cat a soundfile longer than like 30 seconds.. it starts to repeat over=
 and
over and over..  it takes about 2 minutes for a ^c to abort it.  Sound file=
s
catted to the port afterwards, will play, then immediately revert to the
remainder of the previous sound, until they both repeat.  ie  A=3D long fil=
e..
B=3Dshort
AAAAAAAAAA->AAAAAAAAAAA where -> is the repeat.
BBBAAAAAAA->BBBAAAAAAAA etc etc..

I attempted to use mpg123 to play a sound file..  dismal failure follows:

Playing MPEG stream from SlayerAndAtariTeenageRiot_NoRemorse.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
audio: Invalid argument

from kernel config:
Feb 19 02:35:21 garbled /netbsd: sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 7 drq 1: =
dsp v
3.02
Feb 19 02:35:21 garbled /netbsd: audio0 at sb0

(yes I know it's irq 7.  same as the printer.. I disabled the printer port,
kernel didn't see it..  still same problem..  I was going to change it anyh=
ow..
then I tried all of the above on my SPARC.. and got the *exact* same behavi=
or.)

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.futureone.com
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