[Klug-general] Flash player sound [SOLVED]

[Nathan Friend]

Finally fixed this.  Turned out to be a corrupted .asoundrc file in my home
directory. renamed the file, restarted Firefox and problem solved!

Thank you for all the suggestions,

Nathan.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:13 PM, nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Nathan,
> I don't know if you still have this problem
> On the Puppy forum many people have been reporting different problems,
> including browser crashes with Flashplayer v9
> Solution was to install v10.1
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> However it seems to be causing a plugin/lib problem to Opera users, but
> firefox/seamonkey are ok, though some had to update, too
> There is a memory monitor component for memory usage, too
> HTH
>
> Aitch
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:14:51 +0000
> From: nathan.friend at gmail.com
>
> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Flash player sound [NOT-SOLVED]
>
>
> OK I have
>
> alsa
> alsa-firmware
> alsa-oss
> alsa-plugins
> alsa-utils
> libesd0
> libpulse-mainloop-glib0
> libpulse0
> libxine1-pulse
>
> There is an alsa-plugins-pulse but yast says it would cause a conflict with
> KDE-pure if I install it, mmm OK then doesn't sound good.
>
> I'm not really sure I need to install anything as Flash sound works fine
> when I run firefox as root, it's got to be a permissions thing, hasn't it?
>
> Konqueror has the same problem too.
>
> When a flash video is playing npviewer.bin is taking up about 30% CPU time,
> running under my user.
>
> Nathan.
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM, james morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
>
> >Pulseaudio is another sound server like ESD. I thought ESD was on the way
> >out in favour of pulse. Dunno, I don't use either.
>
> According to the description of the debian pulseaudio package:
>
> "PulseAudio... is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
> much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall
> architecture."
>
> And in Debian there's a pulseaudio-esound-compat package.
>
> Maybe you should try installing PulseAudio to replace as much ESD/esound
> stuff as possible.
>
> I'm only going down this track, because while googling to get an idea
> about the problem you've got, one person seemed to solve the problem by
> installing an ALSA-esd package as I previously suggested.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not at all familiar with Suse.
>
> james.
>
> >>> On 21/12/2009, "Nathan Friend" <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >Yes, I've tried that no luck.  I guess it's a permissions thing I just
> >>> don't
> >>> >know which files are affected.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Stuart Brand <
> stuart at stuartbrand.co.uk
> >>> >wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1 && sudo mkdir
> >>> >> -p /tmp/.esd/ && sudo touch /tmp/.esd/socket
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 22:40 +0000, Stuart Brand wrote:
> >>> >> > WTF?WTF????? my sound has stopped now as well, same flash,
> fedora...
> >>> >> > looks like it's maybe firefox 3.5.5 as I'm sure thats the only
> update?
> >>> >> > Grr.... time to ask google to come to the recue
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 16:10 +0000, Nathan Friend wrote:
> >>> >> > > Afternoon,
> >>> >> > > Flash player sound only works if I run firefox as root, any
> ideas?
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > > SUSE 11.2
> >>> >> > > Firefox 3.5.5
> >>> >> > > Flash 10.0 r32
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > > Cheers,
> >>> >> > >
> >>> >> > > Nathan.
>
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