No Sound in Firefox

DaBlade · 12-06-2005, 01:19 PM

I've got a problem with sounds in flash movies/games in Firefox.
After apt-get upgrade, both Firefox and macromedia flash were updated. Everything seems to work fine in Firefox, except sound. No sound in flash videos.
Can anyone help?
Using SimplyMEPIS Linux, and debian repositories.

redjokerx · 12-06-2005, 07:17 PM

try to see if it's a permissions problem. Maybe there's an "audio" group you have to be in to play it... or you can just chmod 666 the sound device.

DaBlade · 12-07-2005, 12:20 AM

There is an audio group, but I'm already in it. All other sound related software works.
And I tried chmod 666 /dev/dsp, but it didn't help (dsp is the audio device, right?)

redjokerx · 12-07-2005, 03:44 AM

yeah, as far as I know. You can try the other sound-looking devices. Maybe messing with the permissions of the plugin?

cs-cam · 12-07-2005, 03:58 AM

You need the ALSA-OSS emulation layer installed and then just start Firefox like this:

Code:

aoss firefox

DaBlade · 12-07-2005, 04:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cs-cam

You need the ALSA-OSS emulation layer installed and then just start Firefox like this:

Code:

aoss firefox

Why didn't I need that before?
And why does it not work now, when it did before?

cs-cam · 12-07-2005, 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaBlade

Why didn't I need that before?
And why does it not work now, when it did before?

Dunno, never used Debian to know their package setup but that's what works for me.

DaBlade · 12-07-2005, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cs-cam

Dunno, never used Debian to know their package setup but that's what works for me.

I don't use debian

:P

cs-cam · 12-07-2005, 05:54 AM

Ha, so you aren't. I just glaced at the distro in the postbit but I must have been looking at a different thread in another tab or something, God knows what

Just one of those nights...

DaBlade · 12-07-2005, 09:57 AM

Hmm, aoss firefox works

Thanks for the help