Subject: Re: Xfree86-4.2.1 testers wanted
To: Christian von Kleist <cvk@zybx.com>
From: mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/07/2002 15:19:41
Hi,
I assume XFree86-4.0.2 works, and your on to new problems?, yes i have
seen what you see, did you use mixerctl -a to view what's up?
turn 'on' what is 'off' with micerctl -w command ?
The ISA card ess is 8bit and thats probably why you can not use it.
try cat sound.au > /dev/audio and it probably works. You won't be able
to use that ISA card es1186/78/88 in 'ogle' you need 16 bit 48KHZ
supported PCI card like a low cost Esoniq sb (eap0 card). mpg123 will
work fine with this card as well.
-Mel
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 14:41, Christian von Kleist wrote:
> Mel,
> 
>      Have you gotten the on-board audio to work on any of your PWS's? 
> Using mine causes mpg123 to say the following:
> 
> [root@beast] bash$ mpg123 -v test_song.mp3
> 
> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
> Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
> 
> Playing MPEG stream from test_song.mp3 ...
> Junk at the beginning 49443303
> MPEG 1.0, Layer: III, Freq: 44100, mode: Stereo, modext: 0, BPF : 417
> Channels: 2, copyright: No, original: No, CRC: No, emphasis: 0.
> Bitrate: 128 Kbits/s, Extension value: 0
> Audio: 2:1 conversion, rate: 22050, encoding: unsigned 8 bit, channels: 2
> Frame#    63 [ 7525], Time: 00:01.64 [03:16.57], ^C
> [0:01] Decoding of test_song.mp3 finished.
> 
> 
>      It halts at frame 63 and stops responding, so I assume it has
> buffered the file and has begun sending it to the audio device, but
> there must be a problem with device.  Then, I get this in the log:
> 
> sbdsp_halt_output: failed to halt
> 
>      ...so needless to say I'm unable to play MP3's on my Alpha.  :)
> 
> --
> cvk@zybx.com
>