Troubleshooting
RealPlayer complains that someone else is using the sound device when running under KDE.
KDE uses a sound engine called aRts (Analog Realtime Synthesizer), which takes control of all the sound devices and acts as a traffic cop to allow various applications to access them. Unfortunately, this blocks out applications that don't know how to work with aRts. Because RealPlayer does not have aRts support, you generally won't be able to run it at the same time as the aRts server. To shut down the aRts server, enter the following:
$ su Password: <root password> # kill `pidof artsd`
When you want to start aRts back up, enter the following:
# artsd -F 7 -S 1024
RealPlayer starts, but no sounds play.
A number of factors can cause sounds ...
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