[TriLUG] No sound from flash in firefox

Sat Jul 1 15:05:58 EDT 2006

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James Tuttle wrote:
> # Flash also looks for /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
> 
> # Flash expects /tmp/.esd/socket to exist.
> sudo mkdir -p /tmp/.esd/
> sudo touch /tmp/.esd/socket

Above is the workaround mentioned in LP #29760. It's semantically
incorrect for many reasons, and while it "works" for many people, I
discourage people from using it. When we kill esound in Edgy, for
instance, this workaround will break utterly.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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