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

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Jan 28 10:30:39 UTC 2002


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.

Cheers
Xander

>
> 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.
>
> How do I search for this 'other application'?
>
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