On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:04:10PM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > > Hi. > > Last night I tried to install the realplayer using the 'realplayer' > package in unstable. As instructed by the package help, I downloaded > the 'RealPlayer 8 Basic' RPM from real.com, and let the package > install it. (It did this with no complaints.) > > I then tried to run it from the command line like this: > $ realplay > > The cpu and disk worked for a while, and then the shell prompt > returned. Further attempts to run 'realplay' or 'realplayer' at the > prompt returned immediately without noticeable effect. > > > I un-installed the package (with apt-get remove --purge), and > reinstalled. I then tried running 'realplay' while monitoring the > system with 'top' in another window. The first time I ran 'realplay' > I saw several window manager processes rise to the top of the CPU > usage stack (fvwm, fluxbox, etc.), and then nothing. Further > invocations of realplay had no discernible effect. > > > Has anyone seen results like this before? I am running on a > Debian/unstable system under Gnome 1.4 with sawfish as the window > manager. I do have ESD installed, but turning it off didn't seem to > make any difference.
Sounds familiar... Did you kill off any existing instances of realplayer after you turned off ESD? (turned off = place in standby I presume) Last time I tried, realplayer turned out to be quite smart and not run more than one instance of itself (probably some preference setting somewhere, I never bothered to find out). So if one instance of realplayer is running (but hung), invoking realplayer again would be futile, and can really cloud the issue. For me the following worked: - Place esd in standby (gnome applet or "esdctl standby") - Fire up realplayer, change the prefs to use "Esound Support" (esound *must* be good, why else would they put it on the "Performance" tab!?) - Exit realplayer again (to make sure that prefs are saved) - Resume esd (gnome applet or "esdctl resume") - Use realplayer until you're fed up. And optionally: - Install xmms (much, much better and configurable) - If you value your screen estate: Configure xmms to use realplayer (www.xmms.org/files/plugins/rmxmms, study the README first). HTH, YMMV -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com Please study http://www.rfc855.org
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