NO sound on firefox (media)

Ellops · 05-02-2006, 06:00 PM

hi there!

I have no sound on firefox when playing avi's, swf's etc...

I can;t recall when this begun..

Anybody knows why's that?

Thanks

finklewicz · 05-02-2006, 06:49 PM

Check this thread; there is a couple of ideas that may help.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=363253

Vgui · 05-02-2006, 06:50 PM

My first thought is that it's a permission problem.
Check /dev/dsp and maybe /dev/sound/mixer. I know I had to give read permissions to those before I could play flash sound. Hope that helps.

rigelan · 05-03-2006, 07:35 PM

I had that problem until I realized I was running UDEV w/ Linux 2.6 . The way it was set up, my user needed to be in the group "audio" under the /etc/group file. I hadn't realized it changed when I started using 2.6 instead of 2.4. For some reason it made a difference with firefox & certain games. (Although I was able to play with mplayer the whole time -- which I don't really understand)