> 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 ? Hmmm, why artsd? Do you have it running? > 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 ? I think you can use "fuser", so for example do: fuser /dev/dsp and it should tell you which processes if any are using the resource... I think realplayer uses the oss api. -- Fernando
