On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 02:27:38PM +0100, multiplex'd wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an IBM T22 Thinkpad running OpenBSD 6.1. Recently, I've been trying > to play audio on the system but I've run into some trouble. > > I'm using mplayer from packages, but when I try to play an audio file the > playback is extremely slow and of very poor quality (changing the format of > the audio file used does not change this behaviour). However, if I start > disk-heavy activity at the same time, such as running 'ncdu' (from packages) > or 'find /' then suddenly playback is normal and as expected until mplayer > spontaneously catches signal 13 (SIGPIPE according to > /usr/include/sys/signal.h).
could you provide the output of dmesg ?