Realplayer 7 and Esound
I have installed Realplayer 7 on my Linux box, running Potato with ALSA sound. But it works kind of weird, as when I try to play something on it, I get an error message Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. If I then wait about five seconds not doing anything, and try again, it works fine. If I run Realplayer as root, this problem doesn't occour. (I AM in the Audio group as a user) I thought maybe this is because the sound devices are used by esound, (this is a bit awkward too, because my Esound uses the ALSA interface, and I think Realplayer uses the OSS emulation, and even when playing a sound, the WM sounds going through Esound can still be heard) the output device in the Preferences window of Realplayer to Esound support. But so, even though Esound _IS_ running, like this it doesn't work at all! This bug is more of a little annoyance than a real problem, but I am really curious what the cause could be... Daniel Szabo
Zircon irc client under Potato
When trying to run the aforementioned software, I get an error message saying file not found. All the dependencies (tk8, tcl8) are installed and well, as other packages depending on them run perfectly. I have tried the Zircon version from the stable distribution also, but it has the same problem. Daniel Szabo
Re:Re: esound, lesstif, debian issues
Hello. I didn't see your original post, however I've used the ALSA sound drivers and Gnome no problem. Just a bit fiddly getting the driver configure to work. Don't know about your Fractint and motif problem though - sorry. Well, the problem isn't running or configuring the driver - ALSA and esound work pretty fine. But I cannot install Gnome, because many packages depend on esound0, and I have esound-alsa0 installed. The weird thing is, that esound-alsa0 provides esound0, but still, this doesn't seem to bother these defective packages. Is it a dpkg bug, or can something be wrong with the available packages file? And does anyone have an idea how I could overcome this problem? Daniel Szabo
esound, lesstif, debian issues
Hi. First of all, it is quite interesting that I didn't get a single reply on my question about the esound dependency problems. Am I he only one who would like to use Gnome and Alsa at the same time under Potato? :) Well, anyway. The other thing... I downloaded the Fractint for motif (Xmfract) software in source code. It is not a Linux program, but one written for generic Unix systems with Motif. I compiled it with the Lesstif libraries, everything went fine until I started the installed binary from X. It was S.L.O.W. in the Winblows 98 on a 386 with 4 Megs RAM kind of meaning of the word (not the fractal generation, but when I open a new options window, or do something window-manager related), and complained constantly about not being able to allocate colors. I thought this more than weird, as I was using 32 bit colors... ;) And lo, it really couldnt allocate color maps, all the fractals came out as variations for deep blue lines on a big black background. It does work normally under mwm with 8 bit colors, but it is still slow, and the positioning inside windows seems a bit warped, like texts covering each other and so on. Is this because Lesstif is still not 100% compatible with the real thing, or could the problem lie somewhere else (like a version bug or something)? And about Debian... Well, I don't say it is the best Linux out there, but I like it the most. ;) Mainly because it is simple, and can easily be kept in hand. I get the cold shivers from those user-friendly Linuxes like Caldera or SUSE... They are very user-friendly until you actually try to use them. :) By installing and configuring Debian stone-by-stone, you get to know your system inside-out. I was a complete M$-addict until a year ago, and all my experiments with various Linuxes (RedHat, SUSE) were total failures. But by installing a working debian system, I sort of learned the necessary things in-flight. Daniel Szabo
Esound dependency problems
Hello. I have a small problem (well, actually it is a BIG one indeed) with installing several X packages, including the GNOME system, under the frozen (potato) distribution. I have ALSA installed, and so I use the ALSA version of the Enlightened soud daemon (esound-alsa0). Everyting works fine, but: Some packages insist that they depend on the package esound0, which in turn conflicts esound-alsa0! An even though esound-alsa0 provides esound0, this doesn't seem to bother these packages, and dselect wont install them. Someone suggested taht I should install these manually, overriding the dependencies, but this would take a hell of a lot of time, and I would get annoying dependency screens every time I used dselect... Anyone have an idea, what I should do? Daniel Szabo
