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Linux 9.0 Toshiba Satallite Pro 6100
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The sound chip is correctly probed by RH 9.0 and you should have no problems with it, except with Real Player as detailed below.

 

 

 

REALPLAYER

A Linux-compatible version of the player is available at this site. (Thanks to Jim Redman for this). Do not try to use the "Linux Community"-provided player at the Real Player site (URL = [/url][url=http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html)]http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html) - it crashes with a segmentation fault under Red Hat 9.0...! More glibc problems, I'm afraid to say.

 

Once you have downloaded the source rpm RealPlayer8-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.src.rpm from the link above (or from anywhere else you can find it by doing a "Google" search) do rpm -ivh RealPlayer8-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.src.rpm and it will create a bzipped tarball in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. Depending on your existing setup, you may need to install the Red Hat 9.0 kernel-source package, first. Untar the RealPlayer8 tarball and move the uncompressed files to your user library directory:

 

cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

bzip2 -d RealPlayer8.tar.bz2

tar -xvf RealPlayer8.tar

mkdir /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/

cp -ravd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/RealPlayer8/* /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/

ln -s /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay /usr/bin/realplay

ln -s /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so

 

Note in the last two lines above (optional) I have added symlinks:

 

To make RealPlayer start from a console command "realplay";

To add a RealPlayer plugin to Mozilla.

Adjust these links to suit your personal setup.

 

You may have trouble with the sound not working, in which case set View >Preferences > Performance > Audio Driver Options to enable ESD support, and run esd:

 

$ esd

 

 

This allows multiple devices to access the sound card. As esd will upset some other applications (notably xine!) you will have to kill the esd process after using Realplayer....

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