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Date:      Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:15:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>
To:        ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Q:rvplayer5.0 for linux under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199807072215.RAA10980@darkstar.connect.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980707192744.B696@ljis.ml.org>

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What version of FreeBSD are you using?  What soundcard do you have?  If
you can provide this information, perhaps I can help you.

Regards,
Frank

On  7 Jul, Lee Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 12:30:57AM -0500, Philuint wrote:
>>    Hi.  I downloaded Realplayer5.0 for Linux.
>> 
>>     I've been trying to get it to work under FreeBSD, but have no luck
>> so far.
>> 
>>     I get two error messages.  One is "Cannot open audio device" and the
>> other one is
> 
> Have you made sure that your soundcard is in the kernel and works correctly,
> one way to find out if it is in the kernel and loaded is to type
> cat /dev/sndstat. This should list all available sound devices.
> 
> If you are sure you have added your soundcard lines to the kernel config
> file make sure that the devices have been created in /dev. If not
> do something like this, cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV snd0.
> 
> If you haven't got your soundcard in the kernel config file see the handbook
> on how to do it.
> 
> Failing these, I've got no idea (has rvplayer got permission to open the
> audio devices?).
> 
>>      "Server alert: You cannot receive this content. Either your network
>> bandwidth is not fast enough to receive this data or your CPU is not
>> powerful enough to decode it"
> 
> What speed connection have you got defined in RealPlayer 5?
>> 
>>     I have P-120 with 56k.  I don't think My system isn't good enough.
>> 
>>     Realaudio 3.0 work perfectly with mysystem, though..
>> 
>>    I am not sure...
>> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Lee.
> 
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