Lontronics Mailinglist account writes:
> I do have a Dell Inspiron 9400, running OpenBSD current.
>
> The soundcard is detected, using cat {filename} > /dev/sound
> is working, but the layer between /dev/sound and for example
> mplayer seems to be missing. Also tried xine, but there I do
> have the same issue.
What file types are you trying to play? Make sure they are
supported by running 'audioctl -a' and looking at the channels,
rate, precision and encodings.
Check the mplayer output: if you try to play an unsupported file
type, it will default to the null audio driver and continue
without error. That might be what's happening.
There's a section in the FAQ about this -
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#playaudio
"Coping with fixed rate sound devices"
