[gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi,

I can't figure this one out and couldn't find anything relevant in the
archives.

I emerged the stable build of Firefox 1.5.05 a couple of days ago.  By
default the java USE flag is turned off, but I didn't worry about this
since I use Sun's java plugin.  I don't know if this is relevant to the
problem or not.

My plugins look to be all complete.  Java applets are fine and I can
play video in Firefox just fine as well.  If a new window is launched
using mplayer plugin for that, I get sound. However, I don't have sound 
for anything that plays when a new window isn't launched.

I hope I've made this clear.  Any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[Colleen Beamer]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/5/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My plugins look to be all complete.  Java applets are fine and I can
>> play video in Firefox just fine as well.  If a new window is launched
>> using mplayer plugin for that, I get sound. However, I don't have sound
>> for anything that plays when a new window isn't launched.
>
> You mean like flash animations?  AFAIK, flash on linux still uses the
> old OSS API for sound, which requires /dev/dsp devices.
One thing I'm referring to is an online game that I play - Bookworm, a
game from popcap.com.  When the "scrabble type" tiles drop, they make a
noise.  This game requires Java to be installed and works fine.  Up
until I did the upgrade to Firefox, I had sound in this game.  What is
different all of a sudden?

The other issue is a video from this particular link
http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?inc=5&news_id=8090.  I
was able to get sound in video on this site before the upgrade.  Again,
what is different?
>
> If you use the in-kernel ALSA drivers, you need CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS
> and CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS support.  Also make sure that the snd_pcm_oss
> and snd_mixer_oss modules are loaded.
I don't use in-kernel alsa drivers.  I have to recompile this driver
every time I do a kernel upgrade.  If I don't recompile, I get a message
about /dev/dsp.  So, I assume that what I need is installed when I
recompile.  And right now, I did 'cd /dev' and 'ls dsp', dsp is there.

I also tried recompiling Firefox with the nsplugin USE flag, although
this USE flag was not listed when I did 'emerge -av mozilla-firefox'.

Any other thoughts?

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[Willie Wong]

Sorry that I can't really help with your problem. 

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:03:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Colleen Beamer squawked:
> The other issue is a video from this particular link
> http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/index.htm?inc=5&news_id=8090.  I
> was able to get sound in video on this site before the upgrade.  Again,
> what is different?

Works for me. One thing though: have you tried restarting firefox?
Like Richard described earlier, a lot of legacy software
ahem*flash*ahem use the OSS compatibility layer of ALSA, which
sometimes results in blocking of resources between softwares. For
example: if I start a phone call in skype, it locks up /dev/dsp and if
an instance of Firefox is running at that time, any subsequent
windows/tabs opened in Firefox would get sound on any flash movie. If
I restart firefox, it works again. 

But I really don't know what the problem is on your end.

> I also tried recompiling Firefox with the nsplugin USE flag, although
> this USE flag was not listed when I did 'emerge -av mozilla-firefox'.
> 

the nsplugin flag applies not to firefox, but to programs that can
plug-into firefox, like java, acroread, and such. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[Benno Schulenberg]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> One thing I'm referring to is an online game that I play -
> Bookworm, a game from popcap.com.  When the "scrabble type" tiles
> drop, they make a noise.  This game requires Java to be installed
> and works fine.  Up until I did the upgrade to Firefox, I had
> sound in this game.  What is different all of a sudden?

Isn't this the bug in 1.5.0.5 where it blocks some protocols?

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346167

Maybe upgrade to brown-bag release 1.5.0.6?  Or downgrade?

Benno
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