I downloaded and installed realplayer and connected to a live audio
stream. It seems to be working OK except for one thing, no sound comes
out. I have alsamixer set up for maximum volume. I turned off system
sounds.

Either I don't have a critical driver somewhere or I have something
else turned on that blocks Realplayer from sound output. Can someone
suggest which of the 40 jillion sound thingies on Linux/Slackware/KDE
need to be turned on and which need to be turned off to get Realplayer
to work? There is alsamixer, and Arts, and System sounds and Kmix and
System Sounds and I probably some more that I have missed.

Please, I have tried all kinds of combinations. In the old days,with
earlier Slacks and much fewer choices I got it working. Now I am up to
Slack 10.1, and clearly out of my depth.

Thanks for any help.

John Culleton

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> I downloaded and installed realplayer and connected to a live audio
> stream. It seems to be working OK except for one thing, no sound comes
> out. I have alsamixer set up for maximum volume. I turned off system
> sounds.

Do you have sound for any other applications that do produce sound? what
kind of soundcard do you have? what does in the root console "lsmod |grep
snd" produce? what kernel do you use?

> Either I don't have a critical driver somewhere or I have something
> else turned on that blocks Realplayer from sound output. Can someone
> suggest which of the 40 jillion sound thingies on Linux/Slackware/KDE
> need to be turned on and which need to be turned off to get Realplayer
> to work? There is alsamixer, and Arts, and System sounds and Kmix and
> System Sounds and I probably some more that I have missed.

if you are running firefox you may have to start it with
"/opt/kde/bin/artsdsp /path/where/you/installed/firefox"

> Please, I have tried all kinds of combinations. In the old days,with
> earlier Slacks and much fewer choices I got it working. Now I am up to
> Slack 10.1, and clearly out of my depth.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Culleton

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> I downloaded and installed realplayer and connected to a live audio
> stream. It seems to be working OK except for one thing, no sound comes
> out. I have alsamixer set up for maximum volume. I turned off system
> sounds.
>

What kind of sound card? Is PCM muted or lowered? Do you get any sound
at all from other programs?

Art Clemons wrote:

> john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>
>> I downloaded and installed realplayer and connected to a live audio
>> stream. It seems to be working OK except for one thing, no sound comes
>> out. I have alsamixer set up for maximum volume. I turned off system
>> sounds.
>>
>
> What kind of sound card? Is PCM muted or lowered? Do you get any sound
> at all from other programs?

ES 1371, as I should have stated before.

Ah, post in haste, repent at leisure. I tweaked a few parameters in
Realplayer itself, and started getting badly distorted sound, as if I were
getting two feeds slightly out of sync of the same live broadcast. Then
after a while this problem sorted itself out and I started getting clear
sound. FWIW here is the output from lsmod |grep snd

snd-pcm-oss 36704 1
snd-mixer-oss 12152 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-ens1371 11392 2
gameport 1420 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 52472 0 [snd-ens1371]
snd-pcm 54504 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device
snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
soundcore 3396 6 [snd]

The sound system is enabled again and on the mixer the only input selected
is line. Both the green and red lights are lit on that device. This may be
irrelevant.

On the output side PCM also has a green light, and that is essential.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

>I downloaded and installed realplayer and connected to a live audio
>stream. It seems to be working OK except for one thing, no sound comes
>out. I have alsamixer set up for maximum volume. I turned off system
>sounds.
>
>Either I don't have a critical driver somewhere or I have something
>else turned on that blocks Realplayer from sound output. Can someone
>suggest which of the 40 jillion sound thingies on Linux/Slackware/KDE
>need to be turned on and which need to be turned off to get Realplayer
>to work? There is alsamixer, and Arts, and System sounds and Kmix and
>System Sounds and I probably some more that I have missed.
>
>Please, I have tried all kinds of combinations. In the old days,with
>earlier Slacks and much fewer choices I got it working. Now I am up to
>Slack 10.1, and clearly out of my depth.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>John Culleton
>
>
>
Might just be that RealPlayer does not work with ALSA (as I remember, it
doesn't -- check around on their site). It does, however, work just fine
with OSS...

On 2005-03-01, Thomas Ronayne espoused the following:
> Might just be that RealPlayer does not work with ALSA (as I remember, it
> doesn't -- check around on their site). It does, however, work just fine
> with OSS...
Not sure what might be on the website, but I have been using RP and alsa
without any problem at all ever since alsa was added in current.

Scott Cole

--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.

Scott Cole wrote:

>On 2005-03-01, Thomas Ronayne espoused the following:
>
>
>>Might just be that RealPlayer does not work with ALSA (as I remember, it
>>doesn't -- check around on their site). It does, however, work just fine
>>with OSS...
>>
>>
>Not sure what might be on the website, but I have been using RP and alsa
>without any problem at all ever since alsa was added in current.
>
>Scott Cole
>
>
>
If memory serves, it was RealPlayer 10 that didn't like ALSA. The older
one -- what was it, 7? -- did. Something like that. It may be with the
Helix community that RealPlayer 10 does work all right with ALSA. Might
be worth a look at https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads just
to see what there is to see.

On 2005-03-02, Thomas Ronayne espoused the following:

> If memory serves, it was RealPlayer 10 that didn't like ALSA. The older
> one -- what was it, 7? -- did. Something like that. It may be with the
> Helix community that RealPlayer 10 does work all right with ALSA. Might
> be worth a look at https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads just
> to see what there is to see.

I guess I should have stated also, that I have been using RP 10 since
it came out and before that 8 and 9.
But YMMV.

Scott
--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:51:22 +0000, Thomas Ronayne wrote:

> If memory serves, it was RealPlayer 10 that didn't like ALSA. The older
> one -- what was it, 7? -- did. Something like that. It may be with the
> Helix community that RealPlayer 10 does work all right with ALSA. Might
> be worth a look at https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads just
> to see what there is to see.

RealPlayer 10 works great with Alsa! Yet another case of alsaphobia? Slide
the volume bar all the way to the right, maybe that will help ;-)



Gary
--
http://jackalope.homelinux.net/~gcarlson/













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