Using XMMS's libMikMod plugin, in 16-bit resolution mode, it produces only garbage noise. Selecting 8-bit mode fixes it right up. This leads me to believe it may be an endian-ness issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start XMMS 2. In the Preferences dialog, make sure the Resolution for libMikMod is set to 16-bit 3. Open a MOD file and play Actual Results: Got hideous staticy noise out of the speakers. Expected Results: Clear playing of the MOD file. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ben10 ppc GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="mitshm ppc gnome-libs berkdb guile tcpd gtk X gtk2 gnome -alsa -qt -kde -arts apm bonobo cdr cjk crypt curl dvd encode esd evo fbcon gd gdbm ggi gif gpm gps gtkhtml imap imlib java jpeg libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tiff truetype trusted usb Xaw3d xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache"
It _is_ an endianness-bug. I looked into the mikmod-source but can't find anything how to change it. Usually mikmod runs on ppc (even on MacOS), but I don't know, if they switched off the usage of 16-bit mods. I will leave this bug as new. Hopefully another dev with other skills may look in it ;-)
looking into this now
hm, the code to the mikmod plugin was last changed in '99 - and from looking at it, I see no suspicious code. could this be a sound driver issue?
could you try xmms-1.2.8-r1 ? and if it doesnt work post an offending mod file ?
Brian, please see spanky's comment.
Sorry, Gentoo has crashed horribly on my Mac and I haven't been able to get it booting again. If anyone else can test this, it was EVERY mod file which was causing the problem, so you shouldn't have a problem reproducing it with the older version.
Going to close this with worksforme