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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:22:13 -0600
From:      Jonathan E Fosburgh <wotan@fosburgh.org>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>, Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KDE Upgrade broke RealPlayer8
Message-ID:  <01030414221300.37767@gw.fosburgh.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010302092228.A559@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
References:  <01030123000100.02639@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> <20010302092228.A559@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>

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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.
-- 
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