On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:29 +0000, Michael wrote: > > > > > > Sorry for being slow to come back. I've been working on the > acpi/shutdown > > problem, without much success. > > > > Anyway I tried the site for audio with Firefox, which opened a > window asking > > me to select realplayer, or windows media player. I went for > realplayer, and > > got zilch. So,ok, I thought I'd try Windows media player. Shut down > firefox, > > opened it again from the link in Kmail, but no deal, it was still > trying to > > use realplayer. I gave it up last night as a bad job. > > > > Anyway I cleared the Firefox cache, and anything else I could find > to clear > > today, and have tried the site again. Wonders of Wonders, I now have > the > > window asking me to select a player. Ok. I'll go for WMP this time, > and about > > 1 minute later I get sound, and miraculously it's still playing > sound with no > > breaks. > > > > So all that can be said is that the site works with > Mplayerplugins .wmp > > plugin, but doesn't seem to want to work with Realplayer10GOLD.bin. > > > > I must say that you really need to be on the ball, and ready to try > > alternative options with linux, but more often than not something > seems to > > work. > > > > All the best Aaron. > > > > Nigel. Well I did the same thing ans it worked on my FC4 machine but not on the FC6 machine. I get tired of trying things at random until something works. I want a system that works in a consistent fashion. Just to ocnfuse things on my FC5 system choosing RealPlayer instead of Windows Media player works starting RealPlayer. It is frustrating. -- ======================================================================= _-^--^=-_ _.-^^ -~_ _-- --_ < >) | | \._ _./ ```--. . , ; .--''' | | | .-=|| | |=-. `-=#$%&%$#=-' | ; :| _____.,-#%&$@%#&#~,._____ ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
