On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> > >>>>> "LS" == Laine Stump writes:
> > 
> > LS> Does anyone know if Real Networks plans to release a G2 player for Linux?
> > LS> Or have they decided to drop support for everything but Mac and Windows?
> > 
> > 	real networks already released linux version of g2 player. this
> > 	player works MUCH better than rvplayer 5.0. i recommend you forget
> > 	about the old one.
> > 
> > 	installation is very simple (i even installed it from rpm packege, it
> > 	installed into  `/usr/bin'   but  i  decided  to forget  about   that
> > 	crime. may be i will try to reinstall with relocated root directory):
> > 
> > 	- install linux emulation   package   or setup your existing    linux
> > 	  installation  (for example, i  just  mounted linux partition   over
> > 	  `/emul/linux');
> > 	- start realplayer.
> > 
> > p.s.  "much better"  means  that it  requires  much  less cpu  resources  and
> > (finally) writes to `/dev/dsp'  with chunks larger than one  byte. i have two
> > seti@home  clients  working  in background (load   average  is about  3 on my
> > p2-350) and they don't affect on real video playing  (300 kbps).
> 
> Which linux emulation package? I installed the Suse Linux emulator. But that
> does not appear to work with Real Player G2 as G2 uses glibc libraries which
> are not installed with the emul package. Or does Real Player G2 come linked
> against libc5 ? .
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Dave

Sorry about previous post as I solved my problem by installing RedHat 6.0 on a
spare drive and mounting it under /emul/linux AND renaming /emul/linux/dev to
..dev_bak then "ln -s /dev /emul/linux/dev" thereby using NetBSD's devices
instead of Linux devices to make sound work with the player.

Dave