Real player doesn't work on F9 under KDE -- Solved

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 14:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:17 -0700, stan wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > So in a moment of insanity I configured the realplay preferences to use
> > > OSS instead of Alsa, and lo and behold it worked! The only flaw is that
> > > the volume controls have no effect, even when running under pasuspender.
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >   
> > If you run OSS on any current linux OS you are really running oss emulation
> > under alsa.  So there is something interfering with direct alsa use that 
> > isn't interfering
> > with alsa OSS emulation.  Have you tried turning off the esd sound 
> > server as well as
> > pulse?
> > esdctl off
> 
> Perhaps I wasn't clear. I did *not* turn off pulse, its's still running.
> All I did was change the references in realplay to use OSS.
> 
> > Not sure of the equivalent under KDE, ksound?
> 
> I guess the equivalent of esd is aRts, but I'm not sure what the
> equivalent of esdctl would be.
> 
> In any case I'll try this under Gnome and report.

Oops, I see I don't have esd, just pulseaudio-esound-compat, so I can't
do that test.

poc