aRTs unable to communicate w/ RealPlayer and GAIM

[AG]

I have been unable to get aRTs working w/some of my multimedia apps.

RealPlayer 8 simply locks up and GAIM sound doesn't work at all.
I have selected arts-C option in GAIM, but I still have not been able to
get GAIM to output any sound.

I'm also running XMMS, no problems..
Mplayer runs albeit very poorly.
KDE system sounds work very well.

My system:
AMD K6-2 450mhz
SB 128PCI Sound card (full-duplex)

I am running Slackware 8.1 (2.4.18).
ALSA 0.90 rel 12. (OSS emulation)

Any suggestions would be very helpful..


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AG