Re: Realplayer 8 stopped working

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
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Sved [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:58 PM
> To: Eduard Avetisyan
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> 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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