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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >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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