strange firefox/seamonkey sound issues
 

when i run firefox the sound works, i am installing flash 10.0.42.34 right now and have firefox 3.5.5....

the problem is that after an hour or 2 of firefox being open youtube videos sound cuts out and JUMPS like 30 seconds into a video ill get a jumble of sound. when i get a dialog box to pop up and im watching something in xine or listening to xmms then xine and xmms crackle untill firefox and seamonkey are completely closed out.

this problem has persisted for many many versions and am wondering what is wrong and what log files anyone would want to see.

as always much love linux questions!

revised to add that i have version 10,0,22,87 installed

hi

all my flash sound issues are always resolved by getting the latest flash non-free....but you do need to restart your browser and test by going to
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

2) I do not have other sound issues but you may like to investigate running a sound server like pulseaudio or jack to allow different software to run the same hardware.

latest flash now, still same issues.... jack runs fine except for buffer under runs.

bump bump bump... still not resolved, still giving me alot of problems having to close out all of firefox and sea monkey closing out all audio apps then restarting. i hate that it sorta jams my sound and botches all sounds to come

ahh you have jack....a sound server.

not used it but have just started to use pulseaudio.

and see if installing ..... libasound2-plugins

BTW now that I am using pulseaudio...revisit to adobe site still good for me.

pulse has a config that allows you to setup a kinda realtime priority which might make it as good as jack?

i just tested this on my linux from scratch machine, linux from scratch did not break the sound.... the problem is occurring on a slackware system. im gonna dig out the slackware laptop and see if it breaks on that also. i remember having this problem alot when i was using KDE... would have to completely log out and back in to get the sound working right. now i have it to the point where its just the browsers pop up errors, and needing to kill the browsers.

hi

if using kde don't forget to ensure to use xine-backend.....and in system settings you should find phonon for changing config stuff....very gui...but I no longer use kde its all the way with LXDE

ive DABBED in LXDE, very trim. still love the xfce... im starting to really pin this issue down. ALSA is where the problem is. ive built verious gnome programs, and have installed a gnome sound manager. opening the gnome sound manager invokes the crakling also. i found a thread saying the issue is in alsa-lib package.

as a side note, where can i complain about Qjackctrl needing a GTK version of the same thing?

BINGO! it was the driver version.... fresh compile ala linux from scratch manual of latest sources = fixed... =D

glad you solved it.

heh, it went away for a little bit, then the issue returned.... the odd thing is my linux from scratch machine does not do this at all, where the slackware machines done it from day one.

after 10 hours of fiddling with it it is solved. i had a half way broken install of pulse audio... no pulse audio binary, or a completely non functioning binary, and apps calling for broken binary! was found in /var/log/system because i want to turn off logging and tweak my kernel to speed the system up more for recording music.

first instinct is to install latest.... latest resulted in no compilation instruction from the tarball or the LFS team (they are NINJAS at any nix package i wish to compile.) my guess at compiling it went well, no errors and even got the compiled binary installed. it was calling for "/usr/etc" upon uninstall to fix it to the /etc directory a test of no pulse audio resulted in issue solved.

i seen many many posts about pulse audio causing the error but neglected them because i knew pulse NEVER worked on this system.