No sound in Flash movies? The solution!

dugan · 05-15-2006, 05:06 PM

I got tired of this question coming up every day, so I made a FAQ entry for it:

here.

Feel free to edit necessary.

MariusB · 05-16-2006, 04:38 AM

From my experience you don't get sound with Flash if you don't have the OSS emulation layer of ALSA loaded. Just run

Code:

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

and it should work just fine.
I ran into this problem because I compiled ALSA on my own and I forgot to edit the helper file used for automatic module loading - modules.conf in my case.

evilDagmar · 05-16-2006, 01:04 PM

Oddly, I've never had to do this. Might be because I'm using ALSA from the 2.6.x kernels tho. It's a bit better about handling that stuff with HAL and udev than 2.4.x was.

dugan · 05-16-2006, 02:57 PM

I didn't mention that because Slackware 10.2 loads the OSS emulation layer by default, and running "alsaconf" (which is what I recommend) edits the configuration files for you.

Wynd · 05-16-2006, 03:05 PM

What worked for me was adding myself to the audio group.

MariusB · 05-17-2006, 12:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

I didn't mention that because Slackware 10.2 loads the OSS emulation layer by default, and running "alsaconf" (which is what I recommend) edits the configuration files for you.

Yeah, you're right, if you have a precompiled ALSA or alsaconf fills the configuration file for you then you don't have to do anything by hand, and that's the right way.