when i try to view flash content, i get no audio. i installed the latest version of flash. i'm using Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 with mozilla fire fox.

thnxx

Try changing your menu entries from running the command:

/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

to running this instead:

artsdsp /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

I'm not entirely sure why this works. Supposedly artsdsp is some sort of wrapper that lets multiple programs have control over your sound... I'm not going to pretend like I understand that very well. This works for me though.

thanks for the reply! i'm new to linux... so i have no idea what you're talking about... could u please tell me how to do this?
thank you again

i tried typing this in the terminal and this is what i got:

[frank@localhost ~]$ artsdsp /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so [libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

Are you running Gnome or KDE? artsdsp is for KDE, esd is for Gnome.

Hmm... well it doesn't really sound like the error you're getting should have anything to do with flash. You're having some sort of error with real player. I don't have real player installed (I hate that program), so I'm not quite sure what the error is.

artsdsp /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox

Does this command in the terminal even open up firefox or do you just get that error and then it terminates? If it opens you could see if the sound is working in flash, and then deal with the other issue separately.

Now that I think of it, I'd guess from reading your error message that your error with real player is because you have libstdc++.so.6 and not libstdc++.so.5. Mandriva LE 2005 comes with the newer one. Try typing this in terminal:

whereis libstdc++.so.5

If you get an entry for both 5 and 6, you're fine, but if you ONLY get

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6, then you'll need to install an rpm to get the other library.

The rpm on this page:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

worked for me when I had a similar error with a different program. Just scroll down and pick out a mirror. It shouldn't conflict with your current library because the programs should know which one to look for.

If you need help setting up urpmi to install an rpm that you've already downloaded to your computer, let me know.

I'd assumed that you were using kde since that's the default for Mandriva, but if you're using gnome, then I guess my suggestion was wrong.

here's what worked for me: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...und+with+flash
Only instead of /etc/mozilla-firefox.... I used /home/z9_87/.mozilla-firefoxrc

Just make the file in a text editor and put