Re: RealPlayer7 locks up gnome

[Daniel Lyddy <daniell cs berkeley edu>]

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> 
> On Friday, October 06, 2000 13:27 -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick niof net> wrote:
> +-----
> | 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.
> +--->8
> 
> 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.

Better yet, RealPlayer has a setting that allows you to funnel its sound
output through ESD.  Start up RealPlayer, hit CTRL+R, then select the
"Performance" tab.  Under "Audio Drivers" there's a checkbox to make
RealPlayer use ESD.  I don't think this change actually takes place
until you restart RealPlayer.

By the way, it's really cool of RealNetworks to respond to the Linux
community by adding this option.  Maybe they realize that supporting
Linux is the best way to avoid being completely trampled by Windows
Media Player.

Dan
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