Red Hat Configuration - Creative AWE64 sound card not working, just with realplay.bin; I know it does work

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Creative AWE64 sound card not working, just with realplay.bin; I know it does work

Barry L. Bond

2005-09-24, 8:49 pm

Greetings!

The problem, briefly: I have sound working fine, in general, but
sound does not work with realplayer.bin, started by sites such as
www.oneplace.com.

Now, more detail! :-)

I have a Creative SoundBlaster AWE64. It has worked, in everything
for which I've tried to use it, since I got this Linux system, in
mid-1999.

I recently installed Fedora Core 4. I went one week before I built
my own kernel. (That was due to kernel booting problems which turned out
to be a silly error on my part.) Last weekend, I began running my new
kernel.

(I need the new kernel. I have a Cyclades 16-port serial card, and I
*need* the devices that are attached to the system via it, and it is not
included in the kernel built by the Fedora Core installation program.)

This past week, I didn't have the sound which should have been
provided by realplayer.bin. (I listened to a 25-minute audio-only show
via www.oneplace.com, during breakfast each weekday morning. I didn't
have it this past week.) Though it runs, I don't have any sound, via any
mechanism by which I've run it, at this point. It *looks* normal,
buffering, saying Playing, the seconds start incrementing. Just no sound.

Other sound works. I can access certain web sites via the web
browser I'm currently using (firefox), and they have sound. I'm using
Gnome. When I select things from menus, I hear sound.

I *know* it is capable of giving me the sound, because it did, just
fine, during that first week after I installed FC4. It just isn't now,
with my new kernel.

I had originally had the ALSA only enabled. (I have, today, gone in
and built three more with OSS stuff as modules.) I have gone in and
looked over everything, and make sure multiple Alsa Linux Sound
Architecture items that have, in their description, "Many programs still
use the OSS Api, so say Y here" were also set as yes.

I have googled. I can't say that I've found anything that matches my
particular situation, but I've read looking for clues. I did try some
things that I read about googling for it. That didn't do it.

I would like to get this working correctly, and I would like to do
the correct steps to accomplish this. I am now coming for assistance.

I know that everything is capable of working, because everything
worked, since mid-1999, and up until this past week, when I went to the
new kernel. I know there is just some setting somewhere that needs to be
changed. But, I am running out of experiments! Having other people's
ideas will at least give me other clues and things to try! :-)

If you need more information than I've provided on anything, please
just ask me, and I'll GLADLY provide it.

Thank you for your assistance!

Barry

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Software Engineer, ITT Industries | (My personal home web page, last
bbondATcfl.rr.com | updated February 17, 2005)

Lenard

2005-09-24, 8:49 pm

Barry L. Bond wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> The problem, briefly: I have sound working fine, in general, but
> sound does not work with realplayer.bin, started by sites such as
> www.oneplace.com.
>
> Thank you for your assistance!

Personally, I use mplayer (with all the codecs installed) and the
mplayerplugin to listen/watch audio/video with mozilla/fiefox.

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