Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[mikus@xxxxxxx (Mikus Grinbergs)]

This evening, for a friend's machine, I tried to download the
proprietary ATI Linux Driver from www2.ati.com/drivers/linux.
No go.  Ended up downloading instead from the supplementary
directory tree at SuSE.

What was happening was that someplace (perhaps the server at
ATI) had identified the .rpm file I was accessing as MIME-Type
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin !!  And, although the system had
RealAudio installed, it told me it did __not__ have the
resources to handle a file of that type.  Two questions:

 1)  If the RealAudio package is installed, does that install
     the RealAudio *plugin* as well ?  If not, what needs to
     be done to have the system accept data that is CORRECTLY
     identified as MIME-Type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin ?

 2)  If a file to be downloaded is identified with the WRONG
     MIME-Type, can the download process be simply instructed
     "download it to disk -- ignore the MIME-Type" ?

Thanks,  mikus   (using some kind of browser - I forget which)