Greetings: I installed RealPlayer on a machine running RH 8.0 and PlanetCCRMA. At first it worked fine, but now it gets the following error on startup under KDE : SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed Cannot allocate memory Anyone know how to resolve the problem ? Is artsd the culprit here ? RealPlayer also complains that another application has the sound device. Weird: this machine has a SBLive installed with the PlanetC ALSA drivers, I don't understand why RealPlayer complains about not being able to access the device. So, how do I check to see who's hogging the resources ? Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org