no sound in firefox

I get now sound in firefox...i have netscape-flash plugin but no sound. Video works fine

you've probably got support for OSS enabled in the kernel and ALSA disabled. you need to recompile the kernel and switch them around, follow this guide:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml and you should be fine. OSS was the source of all my sound problems too.

no i have it the other way around oss disabled and alsa enabled

::bump!!!::

Try installing alsa-oss and then running firefox like so:

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aoss firefox

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Bryan

also make sure nothing else is trying to use /dev/dsp when you are in firefox. You can test this by:

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cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

[will make really annoying noise press ctlr +c to end the pain]

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Originally Posted by bryansmith

Try installing alsa-oss and then running firefox like so:

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aoss firefox

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Bryan

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doesnt work

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Originally Posted by spencerf

also make sure nothing else is trying to use /dev/dsp when you are in firefox. You can test this by:

Code:

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cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

[will make really annoying noise press ctlr +c to end the pain]

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heres what i got

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localhost steven # cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
cat: write error: No space left on device

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

so:

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

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

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

Bryan