Re: sun4c audio in 4.5

For kicks, does anything change if you type this prior to running
mpg123 with no special flags:

  aucat -l -m play

?

Penned by Brandon Applegate on 20090516 12:55.46, we have:
> DISCLAIMER; I fully understand and agree that making sure audio works out 
> of an 8-bit subsystem played through an internal speaker is pretty low on 
> the priority scale.  This is mainly curiosity and so I can learn what's  
> changed from 4.0 -> 4.5 in this regard.
>
> I have an IPX, and with OpenBSD 4.0 I could play audio, given that it was 
> 8000hz rate when it hit the hardware.  I believe I was able to use 
> 'mpg123 -r 8000 foo.mp3' and it would 'just work'.
>
> Now I've installed 4.5 and I see that mpg123 only supports sndio and 
> dummy as outputs.  I read a bit on sndio but I can't really find a 
> definitive resource on it.  Needless to say, mpg123 does not work 
> anymore.  I tried lots of flags, including using mpg123 to convert this 
> to a 8bit/8000hz/mono .au format and using aucat in legacy mode.  This 
> gets me sound, and I can almost recognize the song.  So the hardware is 
> 'working' insofar as taking input and doing $something on output.
>
> If anyone can point me to a changelog, message etc showing where 
> something was cut out or changed in sparc/sun4c/audioamd etc that is the 
> root cause, I would greatly appreciate it.  Again, not a priority at all, 
> it was just kind of neat to have the most inefficient underpowered 
> headless mp3 player around :)  Thanks.
>
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