Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in Firefox 1.5.05

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

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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