El Jue 22 Nov 2001 05:27, escribi�: > Dear friends: > > Just downloaded and installed LM 8.1 (clean, fresh install). > > I have so far had only one problem that mystifies me: sound. > > I had no problem whatsoever having LM 8.1 detect and configure my new SB16 > ISA card. I was able to hear both Linus' voice and the midi sample just > like always. When I installed and configured RealPlayer 8, I heard the > usual Welcome greeting. But, for some reason, ever since when I try to play > RealPlayer I get an error message saying that "some other application might > be using my sound card". Well, I went into KDE's Control Center and turned > off all sound to avoid conflict. Still, no sound. So I went back to > "sndconfig" (which I always do in the console, NOT in KDE), and tried to > reconfigure my sound card. I get an error message every time that says: > "cannot find /dev/audio". Totally mystified. > > By the way, what is /dev/shm, please. Have never seen it before: > > Here it is under df: > > > > [sher@Mindspring sher]$ df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 3606476 1194228 2412248 34% / > /dev/hda1 72252 34796 37456 49% /boot > none 256688 0 256688 0% /dev/shm > [sher@Mindspring sher]$ > > > Thanks so much. > > Benjamin
Hi, Benjamin, Go to KDE control center, go to "Sound", "Sound server" and uncheck the "Start aRts sound server at KDE inicialization". Restart KDE and then try to run RealPlayer or any other program. Running sndconfig must be not neccesary. Salu2 �scar.
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