Chuck shakes the Magic 8 ball and asks "psychic sphere, what is he running"
The 8 ball just offers "try again later"

Given that, all I can offer is that the sound card in your
VAX 8500 is not supported.

Quoting Klesel, Roman (roman.klesel@sap.com):
> Dear community,
> 
> I compiled a kernel and everything works so far, except for the soundcard.
> This works half. Meaning, I can now play cds but can not listen to mp3s. The speakers make a klick at boottime and also at halt. When I try to play an mp3 I continuously repeats a 0.5 second portion. On other systems the same file works well.
> 
> With Linux I used the OPL2 and OPL3SA drivers.
> 
> Greetings Roman