On Monday 15 January 2007 23:30, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 23:29 +0000, Michael wrote: > > > Sorry for being slow to come back. I've been working on the > > > > acpi/shutdown > > > > > problem, without much success. > > > > > > Anyway I tried the site for audio with Firefox, which opened a > > > > window asking > > > > > me to select realplayer, or windows media player. I went for > > > > realplayer, and > > > > > got zilch. So,ok, I thought I'd try Windows media player. Shut down > > > > firefox, > > > > > opened it again from the link in Kmail, but no deal, it was still > > > > trying to > > > > > use realplayer. I gave it up last night as a bad job. > > > > > > Anyway I cleared the Firefox cache, and anything else I could find > > > > to clear > > > > > today, and have tried the site again. Wonders of Wonders, I now have > > > > the > > > > > window asking me to select a player. Ok. I'll go for WMP this time, > > > > and about > > > > > 1 minute later I get sound, and miraculously it's still playing > > > > sound with no > > > > > breaks. > > > > > > So all that can be said is that the site works with > > > > Mplayerplugins .wmp > > > > > plugin, but doesn't seem to want to work with Realplayer10GOLD.bin. > > > > > > I must say that you really need to be on the ball, and ready to try > > > alternative options with linux, but more often than not something > > > > seems to > > > > > work. > > > > > > All the best Aaron. > > > > > > Nigel. > > Well I did the same thing ans it worked on my FC4 machine but not on the > FC6 machine. I get tired of trying things at random until something > works. I want a system that works in a consistent fashion. > > Just to ocnfuse things on my FC5 system choosing RealPlayer instead of > Windows Media player works starting RealPlayer. It is frustrating. Frustrating is hardly the correct word, but there is some quite interesting stuff to listen to on the site, that is when you can hear it. The joy of working with computers. Sometimes I'd rather take my dog for a walk. btw. I'm still trying to track down the acpi/complete shutdown problem. At the moment, rather than an update problem, that I'd previously thought, I now think this is a problem with the 2.6.18 kernel, and older hardware. Anyway I'll post back on the other thread if I have any success in discovering what the problem is. All the best. Nigel.
