James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer > doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. > > A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) > and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, > RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided > there are a few frames of video and then it says this: > > General error. An error occurred. > > For more information, please see Error 1 at: > http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors > > and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in > Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. > > Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled > it (several times) to no effect. > > Anybody got any ideas? Any more information about my system I'll be glad > to provide.
I just went through this, but with different symptoms, so I can give some ideas where to look. First, try running rvplayer from the command line, and see if it gives any error message. In my case I was getting an error like: ****audio: write error: -1 bytes errno: 5 Also try checking the log files in /var/log. I found messages (all the same) in messages, syslog, and kern.log. In my case I had DMA errors, but it worked when I disabled 16-bit audio in the preferences menu. I do have a 16-bit card, but obviously I don't have the 16-bit parts configured properly. I don't think you have the same problem, since mine wasn't playing at all before I switched the preferences. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]