[Glastonbury] Realplayer conflict?

[Damon Chaplin]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 09:17 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> Anybody got any ideas on this problem I'm having....
> 
> Since I half-upgraded to Ubuntu's Hoary release (I don't think it worked 
> 100% - so I have a sort of Warty Hedgehog at present) when I boot up 
> Realplayer will not work... it just hangs...
> 
> If I leave it a while, say a day or so, it starts working...
> 
> Now I'm thinking that this may be a resource conflict... something's 
> grabbing something that Realplayer needs and not letting go, hence 
> Realplayer sits there trying to access that resource over and over again 
> - hence the hang.
> 
> Question is: how do I find out what this "thing" is?

It's probably because something else is already using the audio device.
(A common problem in Linux, unfortunately.)

Check if you've got a GNOME/KDE audio server running, i.e. do a 'ps x'
and look for esd, polypaudio or artsd.

If you find one, try killing it and see if that fixes the problem.

Damon