Excellent! This group is great. Thanks Michael for the tip. /usr/bin/artsdsp realplay works perfectly.
B On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 23:38, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 13 March 2003 08:09 pm, Bill Johnson wrote: > > Just installed RealPlayer. When I launch it, I get an error that says > > it can't access the sound device... another application must be using > > it. I'm uncertain how to track down what application might be using > > the sound... none that I'm aware of. Anybody else experience anything > > like this with Realplay on RH8? Any suggestions? > > > > My config - > > Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop, Celeron 1.6, 512MG, 30GB. I'm running KDE > > (the Bluecurve incarnation of it, anyway). > > > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > This may be due to the aRts sound server having /dev/dsp locked. > (KDE expects apps to use the sound server, but many non KDE apps don't do > so.) > There is a configuration option for telling KDE how long to wait before > suspending the sound server. In Control Center -> sound -> sound server > look for "auto suspend if idle" and try lowering the value. > > Or, you might try forcing Real Player to use KDE's aRts sound server. > - From a console window, '/usr/bin/artsdsp realplay', I believe should do > it. If I recall correctly, this worked in the past for me. > artsdsp is a shell script that attempts to hijack calls to /dev/dsp and > reroute them through aRts. > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+cVzPn/07WoAb/SsRAgoaAJ99cDiJqcnRR5S60Tt+FIpuCErEmACfQFXj > 7utQQgPts/84kPhFFIPKlMU= > =SwRw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
