[TriLUG] No sound from flash in firefox

[Daniel T. Chen]

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Rick DeNatale wrote:
> Since Tanner sent that Buzz Aldrin clip, I've found that the flash
> plug-in in firefox doesn't seem to produce sound on my machine.

In short, an upstream Flash bug. You can work around it in a variety of
ways, the easiest being installing alsa-oss from universe, then using
``aoss firefox'' from a Terminal.

LP bug #27960 [0] lists another (suboptimal) workaround.

[0] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29760

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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