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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:22:28 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
To:        Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE Upgrade broke RealPlayer8
Message-ID:  <20010302092228.A559@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
In-Reply-To: <01030123000100.02639@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:00:01PM -0900
References:  <01030123000100.02639@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>

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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.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
USDA, ARS, SRRC			 Phone: (504) 286-4252
New Orleans, LA 70124		e-mail: gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov

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