From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 10 21:19:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22469 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22461 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (skaro-1-168.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.139.170]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.0) id XAA28764; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:19:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by darkstar.connect.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA10198; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 23:20:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Frank Pawlak" Message-Id: <980711042000.ZM10197@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:19:59 +0000 In-Reply-To: "William R. Somsky" "Re: RealVideo Player on FreeBSD?" (Jul 10, 4:11pm) References: <199807102311.QAA00341@annwn.phys.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: "William R. Somsky" , fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak) Subject: Re: RealVideo Player on FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 10, 4:11pm, William R. Somsky wrote: > Subject: Re: RealVideo Player on FreeBSD? > > On Jul 10, 1:20pm, William R. Somsky wrote: > > > Subject: RealVideo Player on FreeBSD? > > > > > > I've been trying to get the realvideo player working on FreeBSD, > > > and been having trouble. [...] > > > From: "Frank Pawlak" > > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 22:35:07 +0000 > > > > I am moving this to freebsd questions, as there may be others who can provide > > advice. > > > > Yes I have been able to get it to work. What version of FreeBSD are you > > running? What audio card do you have? Do you sound working at all? > > Hmm... Well, I've got FreeBSD 2.2-stable as of May 22, with a SB16 PnP > card and the Voxware drivers, and all I could get was "can't open device". > > However, I decided to try the Luigi drivers, and just got done setting > them up, and now realplayer 5.0 seems to work fine. > > Are the Luigi drivers needed to run realplayer? I though from reading > the message archives that either driver set would work, but maybe I was > misinterpreting them. > > Anyhow, are the Luigi drivers the way to go nowadays? I'm fairly strongly > interested in keeping up w/ the current reccommended practices of FreeBSD, > since I'm both using it at home for myself, and, perhaps more critically, > supporting it for a number of people here within the department. > (People have been fairly well impressed so far w/ FreeBSD, so I really > want to track down these sorts of things to keep them happy.) > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Dr. William R. Somsky, Unix Mgr somsky@phys.washington.edu > Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg > Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954 >-- End of excerpt from William R. Somsky IMHO, yes they are the drivers to use. However, I did a cvsup to get the most current version of stable, 6/6/98, and did a make world and rebuilt my kernel, with the following in my kernel config file: controller pnp0 # this is required for pnp support device pcm0 at isa ? port ? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 vector pcmintr Your milage may very, but that fixed the problem for me. Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message