Re: Real Player Problems

"Taylor, ForrestX" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.seawolf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
charles g wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 7.1 and trying to run Real Player
> and I keep getting the error
> 
> "Cannot open audio device, another program may be
> using it"
> 
> Anyway, the real site recommends changing permissions
> on
> 
> /dev/sound/* to 777, yet RH 7.1 doesn't have this
> directory.  Is /dev/dsp the same thing essentially?
> 

You need permissions to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio.  It does the same thing 
as /dev/sound/* on other flavors of *nix.

Forrest
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