Re: T42 no sound flash animations

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

Hi,

On Die, 27 Jun 2006, rancid pickle wrote:

> Did a fresh install of etch/testing on an IBM T42. I cant hear google videos  or my local tv stations flash animations. They play fine but no sound. 
> If I disable sounds using gnome's sound applet, all is fine - I can hear the flash animations.
> I googled this extensively, but it seems all have to do with KDE. I know this must have happened to a bunch of folks but for the life of me I cant figure it out.
> 
> alsaconf correctly determines the card as intel 8x0 type 82801DB.
> 
> When I had Ubuntu Dapper installed this never happened, but with sarge, etch and sid, it happens always.
> 
> What gives guy's???

looks like the flash plugin uses oss, 
try creating an /etc/asound.conf

----- start

pcm.dsp0 {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmix"
}

pcm.dsp {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmix"
}

ctl.mixer0 {
        type hw
        card 0
}

------ end

the restart your browser

-- 
Florian Reitmeir