No I am not behind a proxy. RealPlayer worked fine from the same box in RH7.3. I am not having a problem in getting to the website, but rather a problem in having RealPlayer see the audio device. Duncan Brown said: >are you behind a proxy? you may want to configure that if so. Clair Garman said: > I have installed RealPlayer8 from > ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/fedora/all/RPMS.stable/RealPlayer8-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.i386.rpm > as recommended by > http://www.jeremythompson.uklinux.net/Fed-C1/Sound.html. I have also > installed RealPlayer8-plugin-8.0.3.412-6.fdr.0.i386.rpm from the same > site. > > I have configured RealPlayer to run with ESD. When I start realplay, > there are startup sounds indicating that it works. However when I click > on a music link from a website and indicate that > /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay should be used, a RealPlayer window > appears, Contacting ... appears in the progress window for a minute or > so and then a dialog appears stating > > Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. > > This is the symptom that > http://www.jeremythompson.uklinux.net/Fed-C1/Sound.html indicated was > solved with the RPM it recommended. > > I am running Fedora Core 1. > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Clair Garman 301-270-2248 Takoma Park, MD > > Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness. ________________________________________________________________________ Clair Garman 301-270-2248 Takoma Park, MD Don't die until you're dead.