AWE64 sound card not working, just with realplay.bin; I know it works

[Barry L. Bond]

Greetings!

     The problem, briefly:  I have sound working fine, in general, but
sound does not work with realplayer.bin, started by sites such as
www.oneplace.com.

     Now, more detail!  :-)

     I have a Creative SoundBlaster AWE64.  It has worked, in everything
for which I've tried to use it, since I got this Linux system, in
mid-1999.

     I recently installed Fedora Core 4.  I went one week before I built
my own kernel.  (That was due to kernel booting problems which turned out
to be a silly error on my part.)  Last weekend, I began running my new
kernel.

     (I need the new kernel.  I have a Cyclades 16-port serial card, and I
*need* the devices that are attached to the system via it, and it is not
included in the kernel built by the Fedora Core installation program.)

     This past week, I didn't have the sound which should have been
provided by realplayer.bin.  (I listened to a 25-minute audio-only show
via www.oneplace.com, during breakfast each weekday morning.  I didn't
have it this past week.)  Though it runs, I don't have any sound, via any
mechanism by which I've run it, at this point.  It *looks* normal,
buffering, saying Playing, the seconds start incrementing.  Just no sound.

     Other sound works.  I can access certain web sites via the web
browser I'm currently using (firefox), and they have sound.  I'm using
Gnome.  When I select things from menus, I hear sound.

     I *know* it is capable of giving me the sound, because it did, just
fine, during that first week after I installed FC4.  It just isn't now,
with my new kernel.

     I had originally had the ALSA only enabled.  (I have, today, gone in
and built three more with OSS stuff as modules.)  I have gone in and
looked over everything, and make sure multiple Alsa Linux Sound
Architecture items that have, in their description, "Many programs still
use the OSS Api, so say Y here" were also set as yes.

     I have googled.  I can't say that I've found anything that matches my
particular situation, but I've read looking for clues.  I did try some
things that I read about googling for it.  That didn't do it.

     I would like to get this working correctly, and I would like to do
the correct steps to accomplish this.  I am now coming for assistance.

     I know that everything is capable of working, because everything
worked, since mid-1999, and up until this past week, when I went to the
new kernel.  I know there is just some setting somewhere that needs to be
changed.  But, I am running out of experiments!  Having other people's
ideas will at least give me other clues and things to try!  :-)

     If you need more information than I've provided on anything, please
just ask me, and I'll GLADLY provide it.

     Thank you for your assistance!

     Barry

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