Kaushal Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running Gnome 2.6 on SuSE 9.1. I find that realplay does not start,
> after a system boot up. I have Realplayer (10.0.1.450) installed on my
> system.
> 
> Could this problem be related to esd ? 

Yes, when RealPlayer starts it wants sole access to /dev/dsp and
/dev/mixer. If ESound is running it is sitting on /dev/dsp and may
not share it. That is why when you kill esd Realplayer runs fine.

RealPlayer does have support for ESound (it will run on top of
'esd') but the A/V sync is not very good right now, it should run
fine with audio only. The only problem is, I am not sure if the
current RealPlayer/HelixPlayer ships with the ESound support. You
can find out by adding:

  SoundDriver=2

in your prefs file, which is either:

    ~/.realplayerrc  for the RealPlayer, or
    ~/.helixplayerrc for the HelixPlayer.

(or ~/.helix/HelixMediaSDK_6_0 for splay)

Just add that line if it it there, somewhere at the top is fine.

Here are the legal values:

#if defined( _LINUX ) || defined ( _FREEBSD )
#  define kOSS               0
#  define kSupportForOldOSS  1
#  define kESound            2
#  define kALSA              3
#  define kUSound            4
#endif

This is on HEAD though, not the branch the RealPlayer binaries
where released off of, so the RealPlayer you have may not support
those. Someone from the player team could tell you for sure.

--greg.




> 
> I find, as soon as I kill esd, realplay is able to come up. 
> By default, after the boot up, the esd runs on my system, with the
> following parameters.
> 
> kaushal at linux:~> ps -eaf | grep esd
> kaushal 4368 1 0 10:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps
> -spawnfd 19
> 
> The /etc/esd.conf file has the following contents:-
> [esd]
> auto_spawn=1
> spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps
> spawn_wait_ms=100
> # default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
> default_options=-as 2
> 
> Note: 
> I tried commenting out auto_spawn option in /etc/esd.conf, and found
> that the problem was _not_ seen anymore. i.e. realplay would start after
> the system boot up.
> In this case, I find esd running with only '-nobeeps' option.
> => /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps
> The '-terminate' and '-spawnfd' options are not present.
> 
> The sound device on this system is 'Intel 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio'.
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Kaushal
> 
> 
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