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

I cannot install RP8 for linux on any of our computers except the AMD-K6 
475MHz.  Ron says his 400MHz also works.  My 300MHz AMD-K6 does not.
Segmentation fault while trying to install.

So I plugged in our 25' crossover cable and copied the files between 
computers (and rooms) and confirmed with du that all subdirectories were 
there.  11MB of files including Help.  I go to the RealPlayer8 directory 
and type realplay (from X).  On the faster computer it puts the player 
onscreen in the upper left, with a black rectangle in the middle which 
then fills with the logo. On the slower computer I see the black rectangle 
briefly and then 'segmentation fault'.  I tried 233MHZ PI and PII.

The faster computer has 192MB RAM, the others 64MB.  At a yard sale 
Saturday I picked up two 100MHz 64MB SIMMS for $1 each.  (She was asking 
$10 each but nobody else had even looked at them.  $40 for a working 5 
year old pentium laptop Digital.  University town.)

Is more RAM likely to make a difference here?  Or a swap file?  (Yes I 
should be scolded for not having one, but I used the swap partition for 
BL3 and will have to look up how to make a swap file within BL2.)

These computers work fine for Win98 RP8, as does a 133MHz computer.

I then signed up for the Helixcommunity forums and wrote asking if 
Realplayer 10, based on opensource Helix player, which also plays OGG 
files, has hardware requirements, and why I can't use RP8 on my hardware.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org