No Shockwave sound in Slackware 10

Danathar · 07-11-2004, 03:10 PM

I've enabled support for my sound chipset (Crystal Audio CS4232) in modules.conf. XMMS works fine and KDE does not complain about lack of sound, but when I use Mozilla or Konqueror on a Shockwave enabled site there is no sound (These sites use sound). All the permissions on the sound devices seem to be OK.....Is there something else I need to enable to get sound working on shockwave enabled sites?

I'm using Slackware 10 and OSS with the 2.4.26 Kernel.

Thanks ahead of time for any help!

-Doug

keefaz · 07-11-2004, 04:45 PM

Do you mean Flash plugin instead Shockwave ? As far I know it does not exist Shockwave plugin for GNU/Linux but the Flash plugin exists and can be downloaded from the Macromedia site.

Danathar · 07-12-2004, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by keefaz
Do you mean Flash plugin instead Shockwave ? As far I know it does not exist Shockwave plugin for GNU/Linux but the Flash plugin exists and can be downloaded from the Macromedia site.

yea....the flash plugin. Somebody on Usenet recommends that I start my browser with the artsd command. I don't know if it will work, but as of right now no sound works with the flash plugin.

thanks!

emoticon · 07-12-2004, 06:37 PM

The problem is that artsd, kde's own personal sound system, wants complete control of your sound card. open up a console and do this:

Code:

lsof /dev/dsp
kill -9 (process id of artsd)

If you want to get rid of it, rather than trying to remove it from config files, I just did found it with locate and did a chmod 000 artsd. This may be a rather hackish solution, but it works. I'm kind of wondering whether it's a good idea myself...