Subject: Re: mpg123 stopped working
To: Peter Simons <simons@cys.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/30/1999 18:05:01
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 05:00:18PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently updated a machine here from NetBSD/i386 1.3.2 to 1.4. So
> far everything is fine except for the fact that the mpg123 tool
> stopped working for no apparent reason. I start the MPEG-player as
> usual
> 
>  $ mpg123 some_mp3_file.mp3
> 
> and it comes up, playing the first three seconds of the song over and
> over again.

Works fine on my machines..  Except that the latest versions of mpg123
(installed by the pkg system) seem to eat RAM as long as they are
running.  That's why I'm still running an ancient version...

I think your system has an interrupt problem or a bug in the sound card
driver.

  -jm