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.

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