Dennis Herndon wrote: >I have installed the RealPlayer Plugin into Netscape 6.2 for Linux. When I >go to my work site (npr.org) to listen to a real-audio file, I keep getting >an error that says that I have some conflict with the audio being opened. >Audio does work, I have the KDE startup and exit music, I can play CD audio >as well. I also have play audio from various games. In this multi-user >environment, what else should I check for to see what could be taking away >the audio from Real Player? I'm using LM 8.1 and I think the RealPlayer is >from the 7.2 cdrom, because I had problems installing RP 8.0. > > I can't offer you a fix for this but I have found that certain games which use the sound, e.g Ltris or LBreakout (even if you switch of sound in these games) tend to grab the soundcard and then not let it go when I've finished - not a very technical description I admit. I can only get it back for playing audio if I reboot the machine.
You may find that if you start Realplayer before using any of these that it will work. Oh, and try switching off the system sounds as well - they may be doing the same thing. I'm sure that there are people in this list that could offer more sophisticated and technical advice whereby you can have both game/system sounds and audio. Personally I find the former a luxury that I can live without. Graham Watkins
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