quick audio question-- Real Player 8

Sat Apr 10 22:44:26 PDT 2004

Running FreeBSD 4.9 release on IBM R30 Laptop.installed realaudio player
8 from ports. works great. But sometimes I get following error:

"Cannot Open Audio Device. Another Application may be using it." I
almost always seem to get this message after turning on gaim (gnome
aim).  tried running lsof to see what was holding up audio device but
could not find anything. Anyone have any ideas. I'm not on the list so
please cc if you don't mind. Thanks. 