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Re: Audio



Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:

> I was going through my .wav file collection, and after a while (250 odd
> playings) bplay died reporting there was "no room left on device". I tried
> starting quake after this... segfault, like I predicted. DMA allocation
> failed. I am nowhere near a sound guru, but this does not seem right, I
> mean quake plays many sounds, a lot together, or in succession. More than
> 250 anyway. Is this a problem with bplay? If not, how can it be cured?
> Playing mp3's still worked, and some other things did not. Has anybody
> stumbled across this before? I am sorry, I can't supply more information,
> I was silly and rebooted to fix the problem, hence losing the actual error
> messages.

While running bplay, what does a "watch df" in another window show?

HTH,

Jens
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