[Gllug] Re: [Gllug] RealPlayer and 'Cannot open audio device' error

[Simon Stewart]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:30:39AM -0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> I am guessing from the fact that you use kmail that you're running KDE.
> 
> KDE sound server I find does not play well with other applications.
> 
> Try disabling the KDE sound server in the control panel.
> >
> > RealPlayer has started to give an
> >
> > 'Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.'
> >
> > error.  This is after a reset. The only thing that I can think of
> > causing  some lock is that another logged in use may have tried to
> > access RealPlayer  from  their account.

Both ESD and ARTS come complete with "wrapper" scripts that allow
programs not designed to be used with them to work (that is, they
attempt to reroute the audio device) They're called "artsdsp" and
"esddsp" (leaving as an exercise to the reader which is used with
which)

IME, they tend to work reasonably well. One particularly evil thing to
do is to run the command "artsdsp esd" (the opposite never seemed to
work for me) and then anything that needs either arts or esd works
fine :)

Cheers,

Simon

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