On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:00:47AM +0100, Martin Toft wrote: > 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?
try the cat > /dev/audio < /dev/zero test in faq13 also try the regress test in src/regress/sys/dev/audio see if those produce the shreiking sound is this new(ish)? you said you had the problem a month or two old -current, but before that? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
