[gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Daniel]

Here's what I have:
  KDE (Konqueror & Firefox)
  Sound works in mplayer
  Sound works in amarok
  I'm using alsa
  I'm not using arts
  I'm not using esd
  My USE flags include gstreamer
  Flash video works
  Flash audio is completely silent

Here's what I've tried:
  # emerge netscape-flash
  $ rm -r ~/.mozilla (and other firefox-ish or macromedia dirs)
  Restarting the box
  Creating a new user and starting a KDE session as that user

In all cases above, Youtube videos and every other site using Flash works 
great... except for the audio.  I have no sound whatsoever.

This has been the case for some time, but I've been unable to find the problem 
and Google hasn't been much help either.  There's lots of mentions of 64bit 
systems running into this, but both of my machines are running in 32bit mode 
(one is AMD64 desktop, the other is a Intel Centrino laptop).

Does anyone have some ideas as to what I'm missing here?  I'm kinda desperate 
at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour through Europe and I 
won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing then.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Dan Farrell]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:00:12 -0400
Daniel <danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I'm kinda desperate 
> at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour through Europe
> and I won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing then.

well then I think there may be hope for you, for this isn't likely to
provide the best possible solution.  

have you tried starting firefox like 'aoss firefox' ?
a hack, but googling aos & firefox together provide:
http://www.mepis.org/node/13285
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-199289.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gentoo-linux-help/57952-no-sound-firefox.html
notice the last one is from a gentoo forum.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Daniel]

On September 5, 2007 03:12:18 pm Dan Farrell wrote:
> well then I think there may be hope for you, for this isn't likely to
> provide the best possible solution.
>
> have you tried starting firefox like 'aoss firefox' ?
> a hack, but googling aos & firefox together provide:
> http://www.mepis.org/node/13285
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-199289.html
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gentoo-linux-help/57952-no-sound-firefox.h
>tml notice the last one is from a gentoo forum.

Interestingly enough, running "aos firefox" results in a "command not found" 
error, and even more interestingly, /dev/dsp doesn't exist for me.  I'm not 
really sure how mplayer and amarok can work without it, but it does.  Any 
explanations from you thoughtful folks?

Given that I use alsa, is this likely the problem I'm having with no sound in 
Flash?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Daniel]

> > Here's what I have:
> >   KDE (Konqueror & Firefox)
> >   Sound works in mplayer
> >   Sound works in amarok
> >   I'm using alsa
> >   I'm not using arts
> >   I'm not using esd
> >   My USE flags include gstreamer
> >   Flash video works
> >   Flash audio is completely silent
> >
> > Here's what I've tried:
> >   # emerge netscape-flash
> >   $ rm -r ~/.mozilla (and other firefox-ish or macromedia dirs)
> >   Restarting the box
> >   Creating a new user and starting a KDE session as that user

On September 5, 2007 03:04:23 pm Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> I had a similar problem, sound began working when i emerged the enlightened
> sound daemon

I just tried that with no success.  Do I need to be running it or 
anything?  'cause starting it with the init script is failing with a [ !! ] 
and there's nothing in /var/log/messages.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Daniel wrote:
> Interestingly enough, running "aos firefox" results in a "command not
> found"

It's aoss (/usr/bin/aoss), and belongs to 
media-libs/alsa-oss

HTH
	Francesco
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Daniel]

On September 5, 2007 05:07:03 pm Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Daniel wrote:
> > Interestingly enough, running "aos firefox" results in a "command not
> > found"
>
> It's aoss (/usr/bin/aoss), and belongs to
> media-libs/alsa-oss

Thanks, but even though aoss firefox loaded, Youtube still gives me no sound.  
I'm in the process now of compiling my kernel with OSS support (under Alsa) 
to see if that helps.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

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Indeed, it the daemon should be running in order to the sound to work (did
in my case), see if there is an option for a more verbose output or
something like that.


2007/9/5, Daniel <danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca>:
>
> > > Here's what I have:
> > >   KDE (Konqueror & Firefox)
> > >   Sound works in mplayer
> > >   Sound works in amarok
> > >   I'm using alsa
> > >   I'm not using arts
> > >   I'm not using esd
> > >   My USE flags include gstreamer
> > >   Flash video works
> > >   Flash audio is completely silent
> > >
> > > Here's what I've tried:
> > >   # emerge netscape-flash
> > >   $ rm -r ~/.mozilla (and other firefox-ish or macromedia dirs)
> > >   Restarting the box
> > >   Creating a new user and starting a KDE session as that user
>
> On September 5, 2007 03:04:23 pm Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > I had a similar problem, sound began working when i emerged the
> enlightened
> > sound daemon
>
> I just tried that with no success.  Do I need to be running it or
> anything?  'cause starting it with the init script is failing with a [ !!
> ]
> and there's nothing in /var/log/messages.
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Mike]

Daniel wrote:

> Thanks, but even though aoss firefox loaded, Youtube still gives me no sound.  
> I'm in the process now of compiling my kernel with OSS support (under Alsa) 
> to see if that helps.

Last time I updated alsa-lib my sound didn't work because it doesn't 
build the plugins by default anymore. (this is ~86 mind you) I had to 
add ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" to /etc/make.conf. Then my sound worked again. 
Hope this helps.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Daniel wrote:
> Here's what I have:
>   KDE (Konqueror & Firefox)
>   Sound works in mplayer
>   Sound works in amarok
>   I'm using alsa
>   I'm not using arts
>   I'm not using esd
>   My USE flags include gstreamer
>   Flash video works
>   Flash audio is completely silent

Hmmm, apart from gstreamer, I have the same setup

> Here's what I've tried:
>   # emerge netscape-flash
>   $ rm -r ~/.mozilla (and other firefox-ish or macromedia dirs)
>   Restarting the box
>   Creating a new user and starting a KDE session as that user

Same here, so at least it can be gotten to work

> In all cases above, Youtube videos and every other site using Flash
> works great... except for the audio.  I have no sound whatsoever.
>
> This has been the case for some time, but I've been unable to find
> the problem and Google hasn't been much help either.  There's lots of
> mentions of 64bit systems running into this, but both of my machines
> are running in 32bit mode (one is AMD64 desktop, the other is a Intel
> Centrino laptop).
>
> Does anyone have some ideas as to what I'm missing here?  I'm kinda
> desperate at this point as I'm about to go on a very long tour
> through Europe and I won't have time to troubleshoot this sorta thing
> then.

Did you run alsaconf, and redo your mixer settings? What sound card do 
you have?

It should be a thing that JustWorks(tm), in my case I had no 
configuration to do whatsoever.

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Randy Barlow]

Daniel wrote:
> I'm in the process now of compiling my kernel with OSS support (under Alsa) 
> to see if that helps.

So... did this work?

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