Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer: cannot open the audio device, an applicationmay be using it

2003-07-01 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Louis-Benoit JOURDAIN wrote: I've been trying to install realplayer a hundred times and once the installation has finished, I always get the error message: "cannot open the audio device, an application may be using it" Either reboot to free sound driver and start realplayer as the first applicatio

Re: [gentoo-user] realplayer: cannot open the audio device, an applicationmay be using it

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Louis-Benoit JOURDAIN wrote: Hi, In fact, permissions are correct for the user. Any other application can play using dsp and mixer. Running realplayer as root doesn't solve the problem... Do you have esd or artsd running? I believe these block access to the sound device. RealPlayer does have an