Another Firefox and sound problem
Marc Shapiro
that it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works
just fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it
should, but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop.
So far, I have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is
a runaway Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like
in the thread about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Kelly Clowers
> This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than that
> it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works just
> fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it should,
> but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop. So far, I
> have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is a runaway
> Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like in the thread
> about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
useful modern desktop technologies...
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
Hugh Lawson
> I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
> FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
> many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
> useful modern desktop technologies...
Can you point to a good primer on PA, something that explains how to
set it up in Lenny?
Hugh
Tiago Almeida
Starting firefox from a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, etc) should
be a good idea, since some error messages can be displayed there,
pointing the root of failure.
Have you done this already?
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Kelly Clowers
> Kelly Clowers <kelly....@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
>> FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
>> many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
>> useful modern desktop technologies...
>
> Can you point to a good primer on PA, something that explains how to
> set it up in Lenny?
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
Mostly you just need the first part, a lot of the app-specific stuff
is for older versions.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
Kelly Clowers
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:59, Marc Shapiro <mshap...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than
>>> that
>>> it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works just
>>> fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it should,
>>> but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop. So far,
>>> I
>>> have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is a runaway
>>> Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like in the
>>> thread
>>> about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>> I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
>> FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
>> many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
>> useful modern desktop technologies...
>
> packages were installed. When I run paman, everything come up saying 'n/a'
> and the message says "Failure: Connection refused". All the other pa*
> commands also either hang, do nothing, or say "Connection refused". What am
> I doing wrong? Or do I just need to reboot after installation?
Did you double check that it is running with ps?
And that the environmental variable is set?
Marc Shapiro
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:59, Marc Shapiro <mshap...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than that
>> it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works just
>> fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it should,
>> but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop. So far, I
>> have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is a runaway
>> Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like in the thread
>> about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
> FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
> many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
> useful modern desktop technologies...
I have now installed PulseAudio (on Lenny) using aptitude. A total of
25 packages were installed. When I run paman, everything come up saying
'n/a' and the message says "Failure: Connection refused". All the other
pa* commands also either hang, do nothing, or say "Connection refused".
What am I doing wrong? Or do I just need to reboot after installation?
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Marc Shapiro
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Marc Shapiro
It wasn't. Running 'pulseaudio --check' returns nothing. Running
'pulseaudio' without any options returns:
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W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
ALSA lib conf.c:3952:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0
E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument:
"device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1039_7012_alsa_playback_0"):
initialization failed.
W: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to
48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
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Now, I know I must be missing something.
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Marc Shapiro
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Marc Shapiro
>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:59, Marc Shapiro <mshap...@yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other
>>>>> than
>>>>> that
>>>>> it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works
>>>>> just
>>>>> fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it
>>>>> should,
>>>>> but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop. So
>>>>> far,
>>>>> I
>>>>> have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is a runaway
>>>>> Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like in the
>>>>> thread
>>>>> about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>>> I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having
>>>> FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course,
>>>> many people are against PA, often along with most of the other
>>>> useful modern desktop technologies...
Well, a little tweaking of the parameters in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and
I now have pulseaudio running. Now I just have to wait and see if the
problems with Firefox and Flash go away. This being an intermittent
problem, it will be a lot easier to know if it is NOT working than if is
IS working. I'll report back when I have an answer.
Marc Shapiro
other ideas?
Ross Boylan
> This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than
> that it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works
> just fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it
> should, but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop.
> So far, I have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is
> a runaway Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like
> in the thread about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
restarting iceweasel.
Ross