no sound in firefox - Page 2

04-20-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spencerf

what about same command but to /dev/sound/dsp

so:

Code:

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/dsp

it this works you could try a symbolic link to from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp

localhost steven # cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/dsp
bash: /dev/sound/dsp: No such file or directory

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04-20-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bryansmith

How does my solution not work (just curious)? Do you get an error or does firefox still not produce any sound?

Bryan

still no sound in firefox

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04-20-2006	#13 (permalink)
bryansmith Linux Guru Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: /Ontario/Canada Posts: 2,623	Sorry, I'm fresh out of ideas. I hope someone else can help. Bryan __________________ Looking for a distro? Look here. "There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience." - Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason) Queen's University - Arts and Science 2008 (Sociology) Registered Linux User #386147.

04-21-2006	#14 (permalink)
spencerf Linux Engineer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 1,144	well if you don't have /dev/sound/dsp then I believe that your alsa setup is not correct because in gentoo this is where the device is setup. /dev/dsp is where oss emulation is setup. Does sound work normally with something like mplayer? both oss and alsa? you can test by Code: mplayer -ao alsa somefile.avi mplayer -ao oss somefile.avi __________________ All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer. All New Users Read This!!! If you have a grub problem please look at GRUB MANUAL

04-21-2006	#15 (permalink)
crashandburn0420 Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Seymour, CT Posts: 581	only alsa works __________________ "All I have in this world is my balls, and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one, you understand?" -Scarface http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=10943554

04-21-2006	#16 (permalink)
d38dm8nw81k1ng Linux Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Newcastle Posts: 793	if i understand spencer correctly, then possibly OSS emulation is broken. this could be the reason for the lack of sound. __________________ Here's why Linux is easier than Windows: Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can. Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?

04-21-2006	#17 (permalink)
spencerf Linux Engineer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 1,144	that seems to be the case even though it was my understanding that gentoo set up device points at /dev/sound/dsp for alsa and /dev/dsp for oss and it seems that you have /dev/dsp but not /dev/sound/dsp. but that doesn't really matter because the problem is you don't have oss support enabled. You need to go into your kernel and add oss emulation support. Code: <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture <M> Sequencer support < > Sequencer dummy client <M> OSS Mixer API --- OSS PCM (digital audio) API [*] OSS Sequencer API [ ] Verbose printk [ ] Debug Generic devices ---> PCI devices ---> this is what I have and make sure you run alsaconf afterwords __________________ All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer. All New Users Read This!!! If you have a grub problem please look at GRUB MANUAL

04-27-2006	#18 (permalink)
loft306 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: The DairyLand Posts: 1,666	First of all if you are using alsa in the kernel you must not have any oss in the kernel....if u need oss emulation and it is good to have for apps that still arent using alsa you put 'oss' in UES flags also as stated above you run 'alsaconf' as root ad that should be it Secound if you are using the alsa-driver you have neither alsa or oss in the kernel and you place 'oss' in USE flags to get oss emulation. Also remember to re emerge alsa-driver after every kernel compile however i have seen some versions of ffx having the wrong permissions on some files and some plugins on my older amd64 box and thus dosnt have sound with some videos .....and it is a pain i was told to chmod +ax to thease files though i havent done this as of yet..... __________________ ~Mike ~~~ Forum Rules Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect. ~ Linus Torvalds http://loft306.org Last edited by loft306; 04-28-2006 at 12:01 AM..

05-01-2006	#19 (permalink)
crashandburn0420 Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Seymour, CT Posts: 581	I recompiled my kernel, did everything right and still no sound in firefox. also to enable oss emulation edit /etc/conf.d/alsasound __________________ "All I have in this world is my balls, and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one, you understand?" -Scarface http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=10943554

08-28-2006	#20 (permalink)
jmaslibre Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1	#emerge esound #/etc/init.d/esound start #rc-update add esound default nano /usr/bin/firefox (or firefox-bin) Change: exec /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher "$@" to: #exec /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher "$@" aoss /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher "$@" (or use aoss32) and it's done. Source: http://mx.grulic.org.ar/lurker/messa...52f870.es.html Saludos desde Guatemala