no sound in firefox

**crashandburn0420** · 04-20-2006

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

**crashandburn0420** · 04-20-2006

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

**bryansmith** · 04-20-2006

Sorry, I'm fresh out of ideas. I hope someone else can help.

Bryan

**spencerf** · 04-21-2006

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

**crashandburn0420** · 04-21-2006

only alsa works

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 04-21-2006

if i understand spencer correctly, then possibly OSS emulation is broken. this could be the reason for the lack of sound.

**spencerf** · 04-21-2006

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

**loft306** · 04-27-2006

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.....

**crashandburn0420** · 05-01-2006

I recompiled my kernel, did everything right and still no sound in firefox. also to enable oss emulation edit /etc/conf.d/alsasound

**jmaslibre** · 08-28-2006

#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.

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http://mx.grulic.org.ar/lurker/messa...52f870.es.html

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