Re: Problem with latest Realplayer

["Stig Are M. Botterli" <samb@mo.himolde.no>]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:13:04PM -0500, Brad wrote:
>On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:19:27PM +0200, Stig Are M. Botterli wrote:
>> 
>> xmms works fine.  However, I've found one peculiar way of playing.  If I go
>> to preferences and choose "Esound support", go out and try to play ->
>> "Cannot open..." message, go back to preferences and then choose "Enable 
>> support for old OSS drivers", I am given _one_ shot at playing something.  I
>> have to keep repeating this procedure for every single item I want to play.
>> Does this give anyone a clue as to what might be wrong?
>
>Is esd running, or set to autostart when needed?

After installing EsounD and starting esd, playback works perfectly with the
"Enable support for old OSS drivers"-option, erratically with the "Use
native sound drivers"-option, and not at all ("Cannot open the audio
device..") with the "Esound Support"-option.  Problem solved, I guess.

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