"Stig Are M. Botterli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via > realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), > I am now told "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may > be > using it." on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other > programs > can make use of the soundcard. Realplayer fine before the upgrade. I > haven't seen anyone else mentioning this as a problem, so I am at a > bit of a > loss as to its cause. Any ideas? > I'm using a GUS Extreme and the (commercial) OSS drivers.
Interesting. I tried using xmms (to play an mp3) and got the same message. I had only the other day downloaded the new RealPlayer which worked immediately. I had to go into xmms preferences and change *from* the OSS to the eSound Plugin before it would work. I have just tried RealPlayer and needed to enable 'Native Sound Drivers' to get this to work. Now both xmms and RealPlayer work fine. Hope this helps. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
