I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error.
A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided there are a few frames of video and then it says this: General error. An error occurred. For more information, please see Error 1 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled it (several times) to no effect. Anybody got any ideas? Any more information about my system I'll be glad to provide. Thanks a lot! James Dietrich