First, I apologize for the vagueness of my report and for not trying it on RC-2 yet. The fact is I haven't had time yet, but I figured it is important to get your attention before RC-3 is released. :) I will follow up with any information you request. Thanks AFTER I start playing, the kernel emits: Interrupt storm detected on "irq17: ohci0"; throttling interrupt source pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead Oddly enough, sometimes mplayer will play up to about 10 seconds of a song, then start stuttering (roughly, playing each 0.5 seconds of music twice). xmms and amp never emit any sound, and appear to block as soon as they write(). Xmms's time-counter never advances past 00:00 Fix: unknown How-To-Repeat: play an mp3 with xmms or amp
I should add dmesg outputs (attached) These machines use different kernel modules for sound: Elrond uses snd_cmi and Legolas uses snd_via8233, and both exhibit the same symptoms. Elrond's motherboard is an Asus A7M266-D, and Legolas is a laptop, Athlon 64, with the chipset VIA K8T800+VT8235CE. Sorry if my subject is misleading, but I don't know what Elrond's chipset is. I thought it was VIA, but I can't find the spec. At any rate, it's disturbing to me that they're exhibiting the same symptom on multiple versions of FreeBSD. This may be a symptom of a fairly widespread problem. Let me know what I can do to help. I'm comfortable with cvsup and patching. Thanks!
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-multimedia Over to maintainer(s).