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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > Have you tried using Realaudio with links2 instead of Netscape or Opera?
> 
>    I get RealPlayer to be called from Links graphical when running under X. 
>   
> 
> Regards,
>          Ron

With the above encouragement I did some experimenting and the following 
works:
boot with bare.i kernel from SW71
load sound modules for ess solo chip (soundcore, soundlow, sound, 
esssolo1) using script

Xvesa -screen 640x480x16 &rxvt -e links2 -g
(I could not manage to specify mode for links2 so got the default 640,
therefore Xvesa should match or it goes offscreen)
ESC  Setup
Associations:  Label - realaudio
                Content-type  audio/x-pn-realaudio
                Program   /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay
Uncheck Block terminal, Run in terminal and Ask before opening
Close

File extensions:  Extension(s)  ram,rm,ra,rmm  
(do NOT use rpm which is found in Opera unless you want to play rpm 
binaries)
Content-type  audio/x-pn-realaudio
Close
Save options (important!!!)

Test this on a local file in the Realplayer directory (firstrun.rm)
which does not mean it worked since this is not an audio/x-pn-realaudio
and if you put application instead of audio/x-pn in both places it still 
works.  I had to fix this when an online file brought upan error message 
about nothing being assigned to content-type audio/x-pn-realaudio

Do a google search on internet classical realaudio and click on a link, it 
brings up the Realaudio window and buffers and plays.

Hitting Ctrl-X stops the playing and after this (maybe even if you don't 
exit that way) none of the keyboard navigation works any more in links, 
but the mouse works so I am stuck with that.  

You can change to a text console and run other programs while listening to 
the radio.  RP has a volume adjustment but so does my boombox set to line 
in and pluggd in with a stereo-to-sound-card and two monos to boombox 
which I think comes with some sound cards (or Radio Shack).

If you go into X or Xvesa with icewm, startx, and more than 640 
resolution, typing links2 -g gets you the same resolutoin.

Anyway, Xvesa works fine for Realaudio (except I cannot get it to install 
on a computer where I did not install the full set of X packages, 
which might just be some file is missing somehow, and there is a bug of 
some sort telling me the wrong error).

I might try this next with lynx in Xvesa rxvt.