[TriLUG] No sound from flash in firefox

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 20:01:14 EDT 2006


On 6/30/06, Daniel T. Chen <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> LP bug #27960 [0] lists another (suboptimal) workaround.
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> [0] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29760

Thanks, yeah I found that after I posted, I've backed the other
workaround and gone with yours.

I can't say that I understood the thread of the bug report very well.

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