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   Subject: Re: No radio...bereft   
   Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:21:55 +0000   
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   On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:00:01 +0000, Toby Newman    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2007-02-15, Seaside Peter  wrote:   
   >> Running 6.10, with RealPlayer installed. I've never had trouble listening   
   >> to BBC radio using standalone realplayer through Firefox.   
   >>   
   >> Recently I had to do a new install (a change of hard drive). Sound works   
   >> perfectly - except for radio. Realplayer says  buffering, then says    
   >> playing - but it's not.   
   >>   
   >> I've googled the problem, and installed everything I can think of. Firefox   
   >> has all the relevant helix/ realplayer plugins installed and enabled -   
   >> still no luck.   
   >>   
   >> What am I missing?   
   >   
   >I don't think firefox honours your default sound card. I have two cards,   
   >and Firefox uses my 2nd non-default one when I view noisy websites   
   >(flash, usually) rather than using the one KDE considers the default.   
   >Do you have two soundcards?   
      
   Sort of...there's an onboard VIA card which I've disabled in BIOS, but   
   which Gnome still 'sees'.  Amorak etc use my external USB soundcard.   
      
   How do you configure FF's use of soundcard?   
      
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