Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:03:10 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE Upgrade broke RealPlayer8 Message-ID: <01030208031000.06645@galaxy.anchoragerescue.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 06:22, 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.
I turned off system notification, that seems to be what the problem is. This
new KDE is buggy - I'm sorry now I didn't wait before doing the upgrade.
Thanks for your help :)
Beech
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