Firefox blocks sound
mhe...@gmail.com
Hi I'm using slackware-current. Whenever there're any flash videos on a
website, I can't play any sounds on any other applications (mp3blaster,
mplayer, etc). I always need to close firefox and restart eg. mplayer.
How could I solve it?
Thank you
regards
.Martin.
Lew Pitcher
(mhe...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Hi I'm using slackware-current. Whenever there're any flash videos on a
> website, I can't play any sounds on any other applications (mp3blaster,
> mplayer, etc). I always need to close firefox and restart eg. mplayer.
> How could I solve it?
It depends on what the problem is.
First off, are you using pulseaudio? IIRC, pulseaudio has a number of
instabilities, and this might be one of them. Fall back to ALSA and try
again.
OTOH, are you using OSS? If so, then reconfigure for ALSA and try again.
Otherwise, describe your setup. Include
- a description of your audio hardware (what chip, etc)
- a list of the audio drivers you have loaded
- what audio manager (like pulseaudio or eSound) you are using
- how is your flash player configured?
- what groups are you registered in (audio?)
- the permission settings of your audio devices
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mhe...@gmail.com
Thanks for your reply,
I'm using ALSA. That's what is shown when I open the XFCE mixer: HDA ATI
SB (Alsa Mixer). Pulseaudio is not installed. Phonon is installed. How
can I check if it's being used?
Further information:
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
I'm using the following output device (as in multimedia system settings:)
HDA ATI SB (STAC92xx Analog)
xtd8865@slack_exp [19:23:23]> lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 2528 0
snd_seq_oss 28064 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6140 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48848 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6248 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 38432 0
snd_mixer_oss 15836 4 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 3292 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 56868 1
snd_hda_intel 25000 5
snd_hda_codec 58204 3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6976 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 69376 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19588 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 51300 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6080 4 snd
snd_page_alloc 8100 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
/proc/asound/cards
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xd2400000 irq 16
1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd2310000 irq 19
root@slack_exp [19:26:11]> ls /var/log/packages/ | grep flash
flash-player-plugin-10.0_r32-i386-1_SBo
flash-player-standalone-10.0.32.18-i386-1_SBo
libflashsupport-20080328-i486-1_SBo
The groups I belong to are as follows:
root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel floppy audio video cdrom tape plugdev power netdev scanner
As far as the permissions are concerned, these I believe are the relevant devices:
root@slack_exp [19:29:56]> ls -al | grep audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 2009-11-21 10:37 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2009-11-21 10:37 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2009-11-21 10:37 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2009-11-21 10:37 mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 2009-11-21 10:37 mixer1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 2009-11-21 10:37 sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 2009-11-21 10:37 sequencer2
root@slack_exp [19:29:59]> ls -al | grep snd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 260 2009-11-21 10:37 snd
Please let me know if you need any other information.
Thank you in advance
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regards
.Martin.
Lew Pitcher
(mhe...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> I'm using ALSA. That's what is shown when I open the XFCE mixer: HDA ATI
> SB (Alsa Mixer). Pulseaudio is not installed. Phonon is installed. How
> can I check if it's being used?
[snip]
Are you using KDE? If you use KDE, you are using Phonon. Did you get the
phonon library update posted November 7? It apparently includes some
modules required by some of the multimedia apps.
From the symptoms, it sounds like Flash is bypassing Phonon and taking
exclusive ownership of the audio device. There have been some comments
about Flash not playing well with the new KDE, and this could be related.
If so, then we have to wait for Adobe to fix their flash player.
Your permissions, devices, etc. look OK to me; there's nothing obvious in
them that should exclude a mixed playback.
My bet is on Flash or Phonon being the problem.
Sorry I can't be of more help
mhe...@gmail.com
I've been using both KDE and XFCE (and actually fluxbox as
well). Now I'm using xfce. The problem was definitely on
all three DE/WMs. Yes, I got phonon upgraded and I remember reading
about it breaking things, however, this problem has existed
since I installed slackware 13 on this laptop, which was in
September.
I don't think it's the case, but how can I check (under XFCE)
if phonon is being used?
Is there anything I could do to solve it?
I remember using gnash in debian for a short period of time a few years
ago? What is the state of gnash at the moment?
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regards
.Martin.
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