Realplayer "cannot open audio device".

[Peter L. Peres]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Here's what I got...
>
> > read(3, "\1\2*\t\0\0\0\0\17\0@\1\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
> > open("/dev/audio", O_WRONLY)            = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> > close(6)                                = 0
> > open("/dev/audio", O_WRONLY)            = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> > open("/dev/audio", O_WRONLY)            = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> > write(3, "=\1\4\0%\0@\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0=\1\4\0\201\0@\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 228) = 228

Now I remember what I did on my previous system: /dev/audio did not exist
(it's a Sun thing I think), and I had to create ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/audio.
On my current system reaplayer opend /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp so no linking
is necessary.

On your machine /dev/audio does not seem to exist so you could delete the
devfile and link soft to /dev/dsp as above or use the solution you
indicated.

Peter
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