> That makes sense except for the fact that it exhibits the same behavior on both
> of my sparcs.  I can understand getting the IRQ wrong on the i386.. but the
> sparcs are what mystifies me about this problem.
I didn't know that you had the same behaviour on sparcs.
On them it should work to cat a .au file to /dev/audio.
You won't get mpg123 to work on them because there is no 16 bit
sound driver for the sparcs.

        -- Lennart