Re: RealPlayer7 locks up gnome

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Friday, October 06, 2000 13:27 -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick niof net> wrote:
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| I am running debian with helix-gnome and recently installed RealPlayer7.
| Sometimes the gnome panel becomes unresponsive although other
| applications function normally. Pressing the 'stop' button on RealPlayer
| releases all the queued-up mouse clicks on the panel.
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At a guess, you have sound enabled (via esound), but RealPlayer has control 
of the audio device so esound hangs when the panel tries to talk to esound 
(which blocks trying to open /dev/dsp).

Try using esddsp to run RealPlayer.

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