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. -- 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
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