[Gllug] Audio conflict

[Norman Duncan]

OK
artsd is running. I checked in KDE system guard, just to be different 
(and because I'm a bit scared of typing stufff I don't understand in the 
Konsole)
But, daringly, with no other option available, I opened a konsole, as 
user, held my breath and typed:  artsdsp realplayer
Only to get the cheery response:  /opt/kde3/bin/artsdsp: line 108: exec: 
realplayer: not found
And quickly closed said Konsole again.

The thing is I can get Realplayer running on its own. no problem.
But whilst it should be embedded in Netscape 7,  it does not launch 
automatically from netscape when I click on a location (radio prog).
The netscape player launches .... with no sound .... luckily bbc has an 
option allowing realplayer then to launch ... well mostly (and KDE 
Systemguard shows it then dependent on netscape). It then works for a 
while and then drops out .
For some reason kmix also starts running. Recently I am killing kmix on 
birth so realplayer runs for 2 hours or so instead of half an hour.

Am at this moment trying realplayer launched on its own. And have typed 
in a bbc ....rpm location as suggested by Colin. (¿Where can I find the 
locations I want to keep trying this for a while?)

thanks for your help

Norm


Simon Stewart wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 15:26 Europe/London, Norman Duncan wrote:
>
>> Simon -I have no idea how to go about using artsdsp or esd..... but 
>> would love to try if its not too complicated.
>
>
> If sound is working from KDE events (you know, logging in, closing 
> windows, etc) then the chances are that artsd is up and running. Open 
> up a console and type:
>
> ps auxw | grep artsd | grep -v grep
>
> just to check (Tet will tell us now that we're not meant to check if 
> it's running that way. :P ) If it is, then just type:
>
> artsdsp realplayer
>
> And realplayer should start up. It'll think it's writing to /dev/dsp, 
> but in reality, it won't be cos those calls will be handled by artsdsp 
> (and therefore artsd) And that's all there is to it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
>



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