RealPlayer volume control does not adjust

I have the same problem as above in that the volume slider on RealPlayer does not adjust.

But the above problem has been here for 9 days and no one has an answer, so it looks we are wasting our time here.

If you look around on the other forums, the same thing may
occur. The right person has to the right message at the
right time.

The link below is to an article on Alsa. I'm hoping that
implementing Alsa will get rid of these sound problems.
Sound and multimedia are a prime function of my
computing activity.

I still don't know of a place where a detailed sound
diagnostic is available. But there is a lot of
bad info on the internet about this. I read where
the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard never worked and never
would.

At system level I know "they" are wrong.

Go Kstart > Control Center > Uitlities > Sound

and check out System notifications. In there I get both
playback of the .wav file called kb3_error1.wav and
there is a volume slider that works as well.

So somehow that info should be able to be used
to get realplayer and other sound functions going.

See if you can find a full sound diagnostic and I will do
the same.

Article on Alsa:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6735

Hi,

Thanks for getting back on this one. I do appreciate that it takes the right guy with the right information to be here to answer or resolve the problem and so forgive my exasperation which looked like a criticism.

I have to say, the article you kindly referred me to is unbelievably long and I would not know where to start reading it (other than at the beginning) and how to implement anything it suggested. I am just not that clever.

I had the same problem with Winamp and a guy just said Tools >> Preferences >> etc >> etc and it was fixed in 30 seconds. RealPlayer maybe is more complicated. At least it plays, hey!!

Thanks for the effort though.

Here is what I'm going to do:

I am going to make a fresh thread called The official sound diagnostic thread so as not to hijack other threads on other subjects.

here's what I did so far:

There is a site called Techsupport.com which has a Linux
forum on it. No feedback (!) from them yet.

If we stay at it, someone has to know how to get from
system diagnostics and hardware recognition up to using
Audacity, xime and the stuff we want to use.

Here's why I do this: I expect that M$ will discontinue
support of Win98se sooner or later (likely sooner.) I don't
want to buy any more M$ product, so I'm taking the time--
including reading those long articles sometimes more
than once.

John Q here helped me a lot and encouiraged me not to
give up even in the face of dead ends. Then there's other
distros-- this allows you work with a _different_ set of bugs.

One set of bugs on a network might not bother a sole
user like myself if the sound works. And vice versa.

I'm enthused about the alsa site:

http://www.alsa-project.org/

This along with Demudi should provide a specialized
product for sound and mulitmedia using totally free and
unencumbered programs.

I suppose you have to consider that _we_ are part of the
development process. We may be using hardware that's 5 years old
like me which may be a 2 pounds in a one pound bag problem.

In an open source product like this the amount variables
is huge. Getting a handle on those and keeping them under
control is a cause for much frustration.

I'm going to make that nerw thread in 'sound' now.

I had the same problem. I still can't get the sound knob on realplay to work, but you can control the program's sound level anyway.

From a terminal, type:

alsamixer

Then use your right arrow to go to "Front". Use the down and up arrows to control the volume.