No I am not behind a proxy.  RealPlayer worked fine from the same box in
RH7.3.  I am not having a problem in getting to the website, but rather
a problem in having RealPlayer see the audio device.

Duncan Brown said:
>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.
>
>
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> Clair Garman     301-270-2248   Takoma Park, MD
>
> Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain
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