Re: Audio

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

On 7 Sep 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:

> 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?

no change.

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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