Sound again! RealPlayer10 working but nothing else ...

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On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Does RealPlayer use its own sound module?
> 
> I'm running Fedora-4 with linux-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ,
> and I'm quite baffled by the sound setup.
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
> I have tried changing settings in alsamixer,
> and this sometimes seems to work, and sometimes does not.
> 
> But RealPlayer10 seems to work fine.
> 
> Actually, after leaving RealPlayer10,
> sound seems to be restored, as heard when clicking "Play test sound" in
> System Settings=>Soundcard Detection .
> 
> Incidentally, is that the best way to test sound?
> Would "cat <sound file> > /dev/dsp" be a more reliable test?
> 
> Probably not relevant, but the sound system in my laptop 
> is Yamaha YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]
> and the kernel uses the snd-ymfpci module .
> 
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> 

Hi.
This won't help you (sorry), but it might help others.
For me, RealPlayer fails to play video at all. For me, disabling XVideo
under the Hardware preferences tab fixed it.