cannot open the audio device

[duncan brown]

are you behind a proxy?  you may want to configure that if so.

Clair Garman said:
> I have installed RealPlayer8 from
> ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/fedora/all/RPMS.stable/RealPlayer8-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.i386.rpm
> as recommended by
> http://www.jeremythompson.uklinux.net/Fed-C1/Sound.html.  I have also
> installed RealPlayer8-plugin-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.i386.rpm from the same
> site.
>
> I have configured RealPlayer to run with ESD.  When I start realplay,
> there are startup sounds indicating that it works.  However when I click
> on a music link from a website and indicate that
> /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay should be used, a RealPlayer window
> appears, Contacting ... appears in  the progress window for a minute or
> so and then a dialog appears stating
>
> Cannot open the audio device.  Another application may be using it.
>
> This is the symptom that
> http://www.jeremythompson.uklinux.net/Fed-C1/Sound.html indicated was
> solved with the RPM it recommended.
>
> I am running Fedora Core 1.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Clair Garman     301-270-2248   Takoma Park, MD
>
> Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.


-+(duncan brown
-+(duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
-+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy
evidence of the fact.
                -- George Eliot