Just finished installing Mandriva 2006. Downloaded and installed flash. The video works fine but i can't hear any sound.

thanks,

franK

Can you hear sound from other sources, like mp3 or CDs? Make sure your volume is not muted (it is muted by default). Has the OS detected your audio system properly? Any errors in /var/log/messages when you run flash?

yeah i can hear all other sound and ive gotten no error messages when running the flash. the flash loads perfectly on web paged.. just no sound comes out of it.

thanks

Well, just another reason to not use flash or mandriva I guess. If the sound card is fine, alsa is fine, your volume isn't muted, no error messages appear, it's either the plugin, the plugin framework in the browser, or the OS. My guess is a config somewhere I've never had trouble with and is not well documented, or the plugin. You've tried more than 1 flash source, right, to make sure the flash itself was built with sound properly?

This is the first time I've heard about Mandrake/Mandriva having this problem. I've run 9.1, 10.1, and 2005LE and Flash has worked perfectly with sound in all 3 versions.

This is a problem that is usually associated with Slackware (and before I get flamed, I speak from experience on 9.1, 10.0, and 10.1) on a 2.4 kernel.

i downloaded the flash player from www.flash.com perhaps if i get it from somewhere else? well thanks for your reply

I also know what Frank is talking about, as the same thing happens to me...

It seems that the Flash plugin for Linux is different than the flash plugin that can be downloaded from Mandriva...Unfortunately (or fortunately???), the Flash plugin for Mandriva requires an account, or something like that.

I've been seeing this problem in various forums, affecting many distros as well as other OSes (XP, OS X). I had this problem until about 10 minutes ago, so I figured I might as well post my solution. Have no idea if this will help others, as I'm running Ubuntu Hoary, and found this fix in the Ubuntu forums. However, the fix was unrelated to flash itself, but rather, it was related to problems playing multiple sound sources at the same time. Basically, I had to move from using ESD to ALSA and create a couple of config files. Haven't tested the results with my media players yet, but it did the trick for getting sound to come through in the Flash plugin/player. I'm using Firefox, BTW.

Here's the link to the thread that solved it all...

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ultiple+sounds


Hope this helps.
Jimi

Another possibility is kde hogging the sound. I always go to the "kde config" in the system menu, to "sound", then to "sound system". Under "Auto-Suspend" it says "The kde sound system takes exclusive control over your audio hardware, blocking programs that may wsh to use it directly. If the kde sound system sits idle it can give up this exclusive control." I always set Auto-suspend to 2 seconds. When it is set higher, which it is by default, I have many problems with appz not getting to use the sound system when I expect them to be able to.

Don't forget to post back here to let us know what worked to fix your problem when you get it sorted out so others with similar problems can use this thread to figure out fixes as well.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. Whenever I change the KDE sound settings and click ok, the system crashes like a Windows machine!

The settings don't budge. And the sound is still missing...I'll try something else though.

I had the same problem. Change the permissions on the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.x.x/plugins directory. It defaults as root, changing it to users and making sure my normal login is a member of that group worked for me.

This WORKS

So, for future reference, people just need to adjust (as root) the permissions in usr/lib/Mozilla-firefox-1.x.x/plugins, and then allow all to access.

I am having the same problem, except I don't have a /usr/lib/moz* directory; I've installed it in /usr/local from tarball. Has anyone encountered a fix for this setup?

If you have a /usr/lib/mozilla directory you should symlink the flash player into there.

I have no /usr/lib/mozilla directories at all. As I said, I install the software from tarballs into /usr/local.

However, I did find a solution, hinted at in another posting. I changed my sound server from "autodetect" (not sure what engine it was using) to ALSA, and now the sound on flash works fine. I have not stress-tested the system on multiple concurrent audio streams yet.