Hi Sluggers,
Once again I need to delve into the collected knowledge bin for some help.
Running Debian Potato on a Cyrix 6x86 with an ALS-100 soundcard. The soundcard runs
under the Soundblaster kernel module. My problem is that all the mp3 programs from
Potato all bomb out after a random amount of time with a floating point exception. it
happens either from the console (mp3blaster) or in X. Random time means from just
getting it started (i.e not actually playing yet) to having played up to 5-10 songs.
Things I've tried so far include:
New kernel (2.4.0-test7)
Running xmms or whatever and just leaving the machine alone.
Stopped cron, or anything else I could so they couldn't wake up and interrupt.
Strace showed they all ran hapily gathering data from the files playing etc until it
gets killed by SIGFPE.
Gimp, bzflag, koules etc etc all run, so if it's a processor floating point bug it's
pretty esoteric.
Chaning plugin to go straight to sound card, not through EsD. (xmms and freeamp).
I've got a mail in to debian-user, but I thought I'd run it by the Sluggers too.
thanks all
Steve
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