digitalmars.D - Re: [OT] Getting Flash to work in Firefox on Linux
- Howard Berkey <howard well.com> Feb 24 2007
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) Wrote:Michiel wrote (in a different thread): > kenny wrote: > >> I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't >> work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and >> everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is >> being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the >> old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa. > > I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of > Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support > and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas. I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread. If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks! Andrei
Apologies if none of these are news to you or if they have already been pointed out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255422
Feb 24 2007