On my system, I using Planet CCRMA vintage March 2003. Realplay version 8.0.3.421 and sfxload version 0.4.3; when I need to boot my system, I must follow the procedure below to get realplay to work when I load a soundfont to my sblive card. Today I had to re-discover this sequence for the N-th time so I wrote it down. I'm posting it here in hopes it will help someone; I don't understand why it works, but it does, on my system. How to get realplay to work after using sfxload to load a soundfont to a SB-Live card. (Assume you've done a reboot of system, logged in as a user to KDE.) 1-- Before using sfxload, start realplayer first. Connect to internet and open a location such as http://www.jazz.fm/liveg2.ra ; realplay plays the stream. 1.1-- I usually start AlsaPatchBay and AlsaMixer at this point; it doesn't seem to matter whether this is done at this stage or later. 2-- While realplay is playing the stream, load the soundfont; on my sys sfxload 4marv/soundfonts/FluidR3_20GM.SF2 On my sys, the stream must be playing. During the loading of the soundfont the stream playing stops and and realplay says "Buffering". After the font is loaded, hit the stop button on realplay and re-connect to the location. The stream will start playing again. After this sequence, I can quit out of realplay and restart is without getting the dread "cannot open the sound device..." message. If realplay is not up and actively playing a stream when sfxload loads the soundfont, realplay will not find the sound device. And my system must re-booted. Logging out and back in, does not work. The soundfont load does not survive the boot.
