I have gotten it to work. I have both the Red Hat player and the ELF
version installed on my computer. I am running Mandrake 5.3
the 2.0.36 Kernal and Netscape 4.08 which came with Mandrake. This did take
a lot of playing around to do. I had to uninstall and reinstall a couple of
times and follow the directions in the read me and HTML install instructions
provided with the player. Also I have to launch the player and then click
on a link for it to start and play right but it works very well once you get
it going. Look in the real player knowledge base. Put in the search word
Linux and it comes up with the trick about installing both players. I think
its under the Netscape pluggin title.
Good Luck
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: gerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup
> d.r.stewart wrote:
> >
> > On 19 Apr 99 at 6:38, Lloyd wrote:
> >
> > > I saw a while back on this list that someone had gotten
> > > RP5.0 to work after much experimenting. I'm not sure who it
> > > was, but I thought it was either Jeanette or Denise.
> >
> > twasn't me <g> but i did find this:
> >
> > you seem to be having problems running RealAudio Player 5.0 for Linux
> > on your new 2.2.x kernel, you can fix the bug in with the dd command:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=702554
> >
> > Note that you want this to actually edit the rvplayer binary, so you
> > need to run this in the directory where the binary is.
> >
> > if you need more help do a search at :
> >
> > http://www.portico.org/categories/
> >
> > hth
> > denise
>
>
> Jeanette and Denise,
>
> Thanks, but it was the ELF that I downloaded, or if not, the size of the
> tar file is identical to the Redhat RPM. Also, I'm running Mandrake 5.3
> using the kernel 2.0.36, haven't "gotten courage" for the 2.2.x yet.
> Also, most things seem to be going pretty well. If it takes a newer
> kernel to get RealPlayer running I guess I'll do it, but I'd like to win
> the battle on this front before moving on. Also, I saw a msg some place
> on DejaNews where someone said that he/she finally got Netscape to use
> rvplayer50 after they'd upgraded to Netscape 4.5x. Again, I'm running
> the default Netscape 4.08 that Mandrake sets up on "workstation"
> installation.
>
> Maybe I should put it this way:
>
> Has anyone gotten rvplayer50 (a.out, ELF, or rpm) to run smoothly with
> kernel 2.0.36, Netscape 4.08, and Mandrake's default workstation
> installation? Right now if I go to one of NPR's audio and click on it,
> it seems to "load" in 1-2 seconds and then nothing. If I try to
> download using netscape (shift+<left-click>), I get a file ~75bytes in
> size.
>
> If so, please, tell me how. If not,... I'll jump off a ..., nah, it
> ain't that bad, but I would like to be able to hear some of the world
> out there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerry Eichner
> York, PA
>
> ps - also on a "sound" note, anyone know which of the KDE (or other x
> apps) is capable of recording into an SB-64AWE. Any suggestions which
> apps to use to make a short .wav file from the mike input or from an
> audio cd-rom?
>
> Thanks, again.
>
