From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 12:22:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pimout1-int.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D328937B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (nas-82-221.houston.navipath.net [216.67.82.221]) by pimout1-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f24KLv6101108; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:21:58 -0500 Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.fosburgh.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f24KME439072; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:22:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jonathan E Fosburgh To: Glenn Johnson , Beech Rintoul Subject: Re: KDE Upgrade broke RealPlayer8 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:22:13 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01030123000100.02639@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> <20010302092228.A559@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> In-Reply-To: <20010302092228.A559@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030414221300.37767@gw.fosburgh.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 02 March 2001 09:22, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:00:01PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I just upgraded to the latest KDE from the ports and it broke > > my RealPlayer. The system sound is working, but now RealPlayer > > launches with the error Sound device in use. I uninstalled everything > > realplayer and reinstalled from the ports...same thing. Has anyone > > run into this? I could use some pointers where to check next. > > It seems that the KDE sound server ties up /dev/dsp so that any other > program that needs to use it can not. Try turning off the kde sound > server and see if that clears up the problem. You are almost correct. Artsd holds onto /dev/dsp, but releases it after 30 of idle time. So you should be able to use realplayer, but you will have problems if you have a sound when a new window appears. -- Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message