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Old 10-30-2005   #1 (permalink)
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Firefox + Flash = no sound

I've googled this pretty exhaustively , tried various solutions but still can't find a fix.

In Slackware 10.2 with 2.6 kernel, I have configured my sound with alsa and can hear sounds in games and while playing music, yet there is no sound when running flash animations with Firefox 1.0.7. Thing is, I didn't have this problem at all with Slackware 10.1 and the 2.6 kernel. Under 10.2, flash sound in Firefox works perfectly while in Gnome but doesn't when in KDE. I use IceWM. This leads me to believe the KDE sound, (arts) is what IceWM is defaulting to when attempting to run sound for flash. While in KDE, all other sounds work, except sounds in flash/Firefox. From what I've read, flash and arts don't play together well in some instances.

Is there a way to tell Firefox to use Oss or Alsa when attempting to run sound in flash instead of arts? If not, is there a way to fix arts to play sound for flash? Any thoughts or help appreciated.

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Kinda stuck on this one myself. The only way I guaranteed that I would hear the sound is to set "Auto-suspend if Idle" to 1 or 2 seconds in KControl and then make sure there's not anything already running that's hogging the sound system. Thankfully Amarok releases the soundsystem when paused unlike some of the older media players and if using Xine it's a non issue. This really is a nuisance, I'd like to see it get fixed soon. Though this week I have been mostly eating Gnome, and for although there are one or two things I've been missing out the sound in flash is certainly something I welcome.
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I've got the same issue. I don't get any sound when visiting www.doommovie.com, or watching the preview movies.
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same problem in gentoo. don't think i have sound in NWN either but xmms and xine are working fine. WM is flux btw.
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I guess I take some consolation in knowing it's not just a problem with me. Sorry to hear the rest of you are having it as well. What is the process by which Firefox plays sound with flash while in Gnome? Is there a way to have Firefox use this process instead of arts?
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I have no problems

make yourselfs a member of the audio group

or change the device permissions *bad*
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You can change the permission of /usr/lib/Mozilla-firefox-1.x.x/plugins directory. Then try again. And we see if the problem is this?
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I have no problems
make yourselfs a member of the audio group
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You can change the permission of /usr/lib/Mozilla-firefox-1.x.x/plugins directory. Then try again. And we see if the problem is this?
I tried changing the permissions and groups before and it made no difference. I just did it all again just to make sure. Still no change. Thanks anyway.
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OK. How is your /dev/dsp files permissions?
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ls -l /dev/dsp[b] [/b]
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Code:
dapper@dan# ls -l /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 2005-10-30 21:53 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
dapper@dan# ls -l /dev/sound/dsp
crw-rw--w-  1 root audio 14, 3 2005-09-26 21:42 /dev/sound/dsp
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