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I am trying to install real-audio on my Linux 2.0.27 machine.
It is a slackware 3.0 installation running on a 486 machine.

I downloaded realaudio 3.0, and installed it. When I tried to play
the welcome.ra message, all I got was lots of noise in my speakers.

Then I found that one needs a OSS sound driver. I hunted around and
found the OSS driver. It turns out that I had to recompile my
kernel with sound as a module. I recompiled it, and then installed
OSS driver. Still I get the noise as before. No changes.

Any ideas what is going on ?

Why does RealAudio need the OSS sound driver ? What is wrong with the
sound driver I have on my kernel already ? Everything else seems to
work well with that sound driver, except this RealAudio.

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>I am trying to install real-audio on my Linux 2.0.27 machine.
>It is a slackware 3.0 installation running on a 486 machine.

>I downloaded realaudio 3.0, and installed it. When I tried to play
>the welcome.ra message, all I got was lots of noise in my speakers.

>Then I found that one needs a OSS sound driver. I hunted around and
>found the OSS driver. It turns out that I had to recompile my
>kernel with sound as a module. I recompiled it, and then installed
>OSS driver. Still I get the noise as before. No changes.

>Any ideas what is going on ?

Sorry I can't be more specific about the OSS, whatever that is, but
it does work; hope that information encourages you not to give up.

: I am trying to install real-audio on my Linux 2.0.27 machine.
: It is a slackware 3.0 installation running on a 486 machine.

: I downloaded realaudio 3.0, and installed it. When I tried to play
: the welcome.ra message, all I got was lots of noise in my speakers.

: Then I found that one needs a OSS sound driver. I hunted around and
: found the OSS driver. It turns out that I had to recompile my
: kernel with sound as a module. I recompiled it, and then installed
: OSS driver. Still I get the noise as before. No changes.

: Any ideas what is going on ?

: Why does RealAudio need the OSS sound driver ? What is wrong with the
: sound driver I have on my kernel already ? Everything else seems to
: work well with that sound driver, except this RealAudio.

I use the same kernel with Gravis Ultrasound. No problem at all, but I have some
cheap SB Pro (OPTI something) clone at work and it works just like yours.
So, I think that something must be wrong with sound card.

Regards

Andrzej
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I can't comment as to whether the 'problem' is a problem or not, but I
know my card can handle 16 bit sound in the other OS...

Peter A Swett