El mié, 27-03-2002 a las 10:47, Rodrigo escribió: > Well, I don't know what these messages mean either :-( > If you play around with real player a little bit you will find a > configuration window. There you can set up some parameters to assure > compatibility with your sound card. In my system it is set something > like this, "use the os sound driver", and it works fine. > I don't know whether it will help you, but that is all I know by now. > Good luck and hope you succeed. > > Rodrigo > > Defner Johannes wrote: > > >Am Dienstag 26 März 2002 14:52 schrieben Sie: > > > >>Hello Hannes, I had the same problem some time ago. I solved it using > >>the following command to open realplayer: > >>artsdsp realplay > >>Type that at the command line and see what happens. If it works for you, > >>I can send you a shell script I wrote, in order to get things more > >>automated. I think this method is valid only if you're running kde, I am > >>not sure. > >>Hope it helps you, > >> > >>Rodrigo > >> > >>Defner Johannes wrote: > >> > >>>Hello everybody! > >>>First some lines to introduce me: > >>>Linux is a hobby of me and I have some experiences with installing Suse, > >>>RedHat , Mandrake and some (bad ;-) ) experiences with debian. Now I am > >>>using mandrake 8.1; some experiences with working with command line too. > >>>My problem is that after starting realplayer8 I`ve got following msg: > >>>Cannot open audio device! Maybe another application is using it. > >>>My soundcard is a SB64 ,driver Esonique 1370, kde 2.2.2, kernel > >>>2.4.8-34.1mdk, securitylevel medium and tiny firewall installed. > >>>IŽve tried to change the permissions of /dev/audio and /dev/mixer with > >>>chmod -c 666 and chmod a=rw. After restarting the system there were the > >>>old permissions ( crw---------). Afriend of mine suggested that there is > >>>a problem with PAM too. Or it could be a PATH problem. > >>>As a newbie I donŽt know the commandline methods to solve these problems > >>>and with the help forum of realplayer8 I have probl > >>>ems to understand what > >>>I have to do. > >>>Is there anyone how could support me? > >>>thanks in advance > >>>Hannes > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >>> > >Dear Rodrigo! > >Thanks for your answer. Alsa is not running. Following happend: > >$ artsdsp realplay > >Realplayer8 is starting with the same error-msg. > >In the terminal you can read: > >esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. > > Try -trust to force esd to start. > >esd:Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: > > /tmp/.esd/socket > >The socket is not accessible by esd. > >Exiting..... > >$esd -trust > >esd: Failed to fix mode /tmp/.esd/socket > >Unable to connect to Unix socket /tmp/.esd/socket > > > >Perhaps this could help you for further suggestions. I don?t know the meaning > >of these msgs. > >cu Hannes > >
hmm. just an idea, did you try this as root? Damian
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