Problems playing mp3's under potato

["Charles E. Suprin" <csuprin@mitre.org>]

Hello,

I have a potato system that I update regularly.  Recently I put in a
custom 2.2.5 kernel to support my soundblaster 16.  This is whats is
causing me problems.  

If I cat foo.au >/dev/audio  it works correctly. However once if I try
to use x11amp or splay or anyone of the other mp3 players I get no
audio.  

Has anyone seen anything like this?

I have looked through the bug lists and monitored the list and have seen
no-one with similar problems.  

Thanks,

Charles Suprin