Hi I'm using mpd and ncmpc to play music on my headless server equipped with a VIA EN12000EG motherboard (auvia soundcard). It's running -current built yesterday and the most recent mpd package from ftp://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386 (mpd-0.13.2p2).
Sometimes when I play a song, some very loud shrieking sounds are heard together with the chosen song. If I stop the player, the annoying sounds sometimes keep on playing (forever). Stopping and starting a song a few times helps and I'm eventually able to play a song without the shrieking sounds. I updated the machine yesterday, because I hoped the problem would go away, i.e. I also had the problem with a one or two month old -current. I will try mplayer tonight. I cannot install the mplayer package due to wrong minor in stdc++, so I'll have to build the port. Before upgrading, mplayer showed the same symptoms as mpd. What can I do to diagnose the problem? dmesg and list of installed packages are attached. Thanks! Martin dmesg: OpenBSD 4.4-current (GENERIC) #0: Sat Dec 13 23:57:32 CET 2008 r...@sprott.obsd.dk:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: VIA Esther processor 1200MHz ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1.20 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,TM,SBF,SSE3,EST,TM2 cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA real mem = 469266432 (447MB) avail mem = 445353984 (424MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/22/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf9360, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0800 (25 entries) apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle) apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xc4f4 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfc450/160 (8 entries) pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 8 Interrupt Routing table entries pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT8237 ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xfc00 0xd0000/0x8000! 0xd8000/0x1000 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA cpu0: RNG AES AES-CTR SHA1 SHA256 RSA cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1200 MHz (860 mV): speeds: 1200, 1000, 800, 600, 400 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 viaagp0 at pchb0v3, agp0 at viaagp0: aperture at 0xe8000000, size 0x10000000 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "VIA PT890 Host" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA S3 Unichrome PRO IGP" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) "VIA VT6306 FireWire" rev 0x80 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured vge0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "VIA VT612x" rev 0x11: irq 10, address 00:40:63:e8:84:6d ciphy0 at vge0 phy 1: CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY, rev. 2 pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT6420 SATA" rev 0x80: DMA pciide0: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SAMSUNG HD501LJ> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 476940MB, 976773168 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <SAMSUNG HD501LJ> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 476940MB, 976773168 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide1: channel 0 disabled (no drives) pciide1: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 5 uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 5 uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 11 ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x86: irq 10 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "VIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8237 ISA" rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-3200CL5 auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev 0x60: irq 10 ac97: codec id 0x56494182 (VIA Technologies <82>) ac97: codec features 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, No 3D Stereo audio0 at auvia0 skc0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "D-Link Systems DGE-530T B1" rev 0x11, Yukon Lite (0x9): irq 11 sk0 at skc0 port A: address 00:17:9a:7b:c2:a1 eephy0 at sk0 phy 0: 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 5 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x4e/2: W83697HF rev 0x12 lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 biomask ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffff softraid0 at root root on wd1a swap on wd1b dump on wd1b Installed packages: aiccu-20070115 SixXS automatic IPv6 connectivity client utility atk-1.24.0 accessibility toolkit used by gtk+ bzip2-1.0.5 block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered cairo-1.8.2 vector graphics library cdparanoia-3.a9.8p0 CDDA reading utility with extra data verification features esound-0.2.38v0 sound library for Enlightenment faad-2.6.1 MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder flac-1.2.1p0 free lossless audio codec gettext-0.17p0 GNU gettext glib2-2.18.3 general-purpose utility library glitz-0.5.6p0 OpenGL image compositing library gmake-3.81p0 GNU make gtk+2-2.14.5 multi-platform graphical toolkit hicolor-icon-theme-0.10p4 high-color icon theme shell for GNOME and KDE jasper-1.900.1p0 reference implementation of JPEG-2000 jpeg-6bp3 IJG's JPEG compression utilities lame-3.98.2 lame ain't an MP3 encoder libao-0.8.8p1 portable audio output library libaudiofile-0.2.6p0 SGI audiofile library clone libiconv-1.12 character set conversion library libid3tag-0.15.1bp0 library for reading ID3 tags libltdl-1.5.26 GNU libtool system independent dlopen wrapper libmad-0.15.1bp1 high-quality MPEG audio decoder libmikmod-3.1.10p5-esd mikmod sound library libmpcdec-1.2.6 musepack decoder library libogg-1.1.3 Ogg bitstream library libsamplerate-0.1.4 audio sample rate conversion library libshout-2.2.2p0 library for communicating with an icecast server libsndfile-1.0.17 library to handle various audio file formats libtheora-1.0beta3 open video codec libtool-1.5.26p0 generic shared library support script libungif-4.1.4p1 tools and library routines for working with GIF images libvorbis-1.2.0p0 audio compression codec library mpd-0.13.2p2 Music Player Daemon ncmpc-20070917p1 curses based frontend for mpd pango-1.22.3 library for layout and rendering of text pcre-7.8 perl-compatible regular expression library png-1.2.33 library for manipulating PNG images rsync-3.0.4 mirroring/synchronization over low bandwidth links screen-4.0.3p1 multi-screen window manager smartmontools-5.38 control and monitor storage systems using SMART speex-1.2rc1 patent-free speech codec tiff-3.8.2p2 tools and library routines for working with TIFF images vim-7.2.25-gtk2 vi clone, many additional features wget-1.11.4 retrieve files from the web via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP x264-20080713p2 free H264/AVC encoder xvidcore-1.1.3 ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec