Re: Realplayer 8 stopped working

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.html

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:  [email protected]
>> Office: (502) 583-3730
>> Mobile: (502) 314-0444
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________
>>> Do you Yahoo!?
>>> New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
>