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Advice for Unix/Linux users
| We have found that the Real Player plugin, which is used by the ZG Radio
Player, may or may not function fully depending on a combination of what
flavour of unix/linux you are using, which browser you are using, which
version of browser you are using, and which version of GCC built the plugin
during installation. You may find that you are only able to listen to live radio using the Listen using stand-alone Real Player link. Installation guide Zerogravity is not responsible for any changes you may decide to make to your computer set-up. The following is intended as a guide only to help you diagnose any problem you may be having. Many users have found that they were able to use the ZG Radio Player after installing Real Player 10. The files nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt must be in the browser's plugins directory for Opera, Firefox and Mozilla You may need to log out and back in again before the changes work. Some users have commented that they had to install the player and plugins as root. As root, in plugins directory, make soft links to nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt ("ln -fs /opt/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /opt/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so" . Same for nphelix.xpt). Add whichever user(s) want to listen to group "audio" in /etc/group (more secure than giving world permissions to /dev/[sound device, ex. dsp] One user has said that when running on a non-root area, disabling artsd got it working One user has said that using the command artsdsp /usr/bin/realplay got it working One user found using the command ln -s /home/me/applications/RealPlayer10/realplay /usr/bin/realplay got it working A user on Suse 9.1 Professional found that the most recent update (0.9.3-1.2-i586) got the plugin working. A user found that making sure the 'realplay' binary is in the PATH when FireFox starts up got things working. More help from around the web Helix community forums: https://helixcommunity.org/forum/?group_id=154 Provides information about Real Player 8, 10 and the Helix Player. The now closed Real Forums http://realforum.real.com/cgi-bin/unixplayer/wwwthreads.pl also contain useful past discussions about Real Player 8. Mozilla For more information on plugins for Mozilla-based browsers, see http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer You can check which plugins you have installed by going to About:Plugins, or by going to http://wp.netscape.com/plugins/manager.html Opera For more information on plugins for Opera, You can check which plugins you have installed by going to Opera:Plugins. Opera's support site at http://www.opera.com/support/service/plugins/index.dml?platform=linux contains more information about plugins on Linux/Opera. |