I believe that realplayer8 uses the native kernel drivers soundcore.o, etc to produce sound. You may want to read the kernel documentation for your card to see if there is any standing issues for your soundcard's chipset and the driver it uses.
You can also do a google search for your card's chipset and linux and you should be able to find remarks people have made with problems they've had.
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-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:58 PM To: Eduard Avetisyan Cc: 'suse-multimedia-e@suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Eduard,
OK.. I finally found the Options etc and have enabled the ALSA output plugin. So XMMS now works.
Real Play 8 still does not (as discribed in my earlier post).
Thanks,
John
Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi John,
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
Try from the GUI: Options->Preferences->Output plugins... There are a lot of interesting options there :)
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
This is the KDE sound server, and can be enables/disables from KDE Control center... A rough way would be killall -9 artsd (not recommended :)
Good luck Eduard
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I think that I have narrowed down the possible cause.
Yesterday I upgraded a SuSe Linux 7.2 box to 8.0. It was very easy and I lost no configuration info for the various installed apps. I had previously done this on the Laptop about 3 months ago and there was no trouble with RealPlayer or xmms after that excercise.
I did encounter some similar troubles following the upgrade yesterday. However I was able to get all going by setting the KDE sound server to Autodetect and, most important, selecting the start aRTs at KDE startup to NO.
When I tried this earlier on the Laptop it did not work. To be more exact there was often an error message:
Error while initiating sound driver can't start sound I/O The sound server will continue using the null devices.
I believe that KDE config files are saved somewhere in the .KDE2 folder and subfolders.
On the newly upgraded box I can use Konqeror to open these hidden folders. But when I try this on the laptop Konqueror crashes when I open a subdirectory in any hidden folder/directory.
Also I cannot switch off the "display hidden files" option in my home directory. It goes off but comes back on if I return to the $HOME directory. Elsewhere it works OK.
So I think that there is a problem with reading and saving configuration files for KDE apps. There was a similar problem with Kmixer where I was able to delete just the affected config file, restart and get the proper display of channels.
So now the question is ..... how do I fix this Konqeror (filing system) fault ? Is a reinstall of a package necessary ? Which ?
I shall try to find some documentation but maybe somebody already knows the answer.
regards,
John
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
I believe that realplayer8 uses the native kernel drivers soundcore.o, etc to produce sound. You may want to read the kernel documentation for your card to see if there is any standing issues for your soundcard's chipset and the driver it uses.
You can also do a google search for your card's chipset and linux and you should be able to find remarks people have made with problems they've had.
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:58 PM To: Eduard Avetisyan Cc: 'suse-multimedia-e@suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Eduard,
OK.. I finally found the Options etc and have enabled the ALSA output plugin. So XMMS now works.
Real Play 8 still does not (as discribed in my earlier post).
Thanks,
John
Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi John,
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
Try from the GUI: Options->Preferences->Output plugins... There are a lot of interesting options there :)
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
This is the KDE sound server, and can be enables/disables from KDE Control center... A rough way would be killall -9 artsd (not recommended :)
Good luck Eduard
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Well, that fixed it.
I have installed KDE 3.0.3 as per the SuSe 8.0 instructions at
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_8_0/index.htm...
Now aRTs is behaving correctly, RP8 works as does xmms.
But now there is a now problem.......see my next post.
-- John
John Sved wrote:
I think that I have narrowed down the possible cause.
Yesterday I upgraded a SuSe Linux 7.2 box to 8.0. It was very easy and I lost no configuration info for the various installed apps. I had previously done this on the Laptop about 3 months ago and there was no trouble with RealPlayer or xmms after that excercise.
I did encounter some similar troubles following the upgrade yesterday. However I was able to get all going by setting the KDE sound server to Autodetect and, most important, selecting the start aRTs at KDE startup to NO.
When I tried this earlier on the Laptop it did not work. To be more exact there was often an error message:
Error while initiating sound driver can't start sound I/O The sound server will continue using the null devices.
I believe that KDE config files are saved somewhere in the .KDE2 folder and subfolders.
On the newly upgraded box I can use Konqeror to open these hidden folders. But when I try this on the laptop Konqueror crashes when I open a subdirectory in any hidden folder/directory.
Also I cannot switch off the "display hidden files" option in my home directory. It goes off but comes back on if I return to the $HOME directory. Elsewhere it works OK.
So I think that there is a problem with reading and saving configuration files for KDE apps. There was a similar problem with Kmixer where I was able to delete just the affected config file, restart and get the proper display of channels.
So now the question is ..... how do I fix this Konqeror (filing system) fault ? Is a reinstall of a package necessary ? Which ?
I shall try to find some documentation but maybe somebody already knows the answer.
regards,
John
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
I believe that realplayer8 uses the native kernel drivers soundcore.o, etc to produce sound. You may want to read the kernel documentation for your card to see if there is any standing issues for your soundcard's chipset and the driver it uses.
You can also do a google search for your card's chipset and linux and you should be able to find remarks people have made with problems they've had.
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:58 PM To: Eduard Avetisyan Cc: 'suse-multimedia-e@suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Eduard,
OK.. I finally found the Options etc and have enabled the ALSA output plugin. So XMMS now works.
Real Play 8 still does not (as discribed in my earlier post).
Thanks,
John
Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi John,
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
Try from the GUI: Options->Preferences->Output plugins... There are a lot of interesting options there :)
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
This is the KDE sound server, and can be enables/disables from KDE Control center... A rough way would be killall -9 artsd (not recommended :)
Good luck Eduard
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