Re: mozilla freezing when /dev/dsp busy
Ymir wrote:
>
> This happens because of the Flash plugin. The only ways around is that
> I'm aware of are using a sound daemon, getting a second soundcard
> (that's what I did), rewriting the flash plugin, or, not going to sites
> that use flash.
> Of course, you could also figure out how to trick Mozilla into thinking
> you've got a flash plugin so it won't ask you to download it, but not
> really having it installed, though, this is only an ugly hack.
it seems like mozilla is doing this too often, I didn't notice any
plugin (or any sound being played). Sometime I even get the message box
saying that /dev/dsp couldn't be opened - not sure who I get the message
from (I guess mozilla).
erik
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:37, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > mozilla freezes from time to time when /dev/dsp is busy. It's quite
> > annoying becuase it makes it impossible to use mozilla while listening
> > to music (on the same computer). It seems like it freezes even if
> > there's no sound, at least no sound I could hear. I only know it's
> > /dev/dsp because when I stop xmms mozilla un-freezes.
> >
> > Netscape freezes as well but I always hear sound afterwards (when it
> > uhn-freezes) so that's understandable. It doesn't happen very often
> > with netscape so I suspect that mozilla is trying to open /dev/dsp for
> > no good reason.
> >
> > is there a solution for this problem? (except of sound server)
> >
> > I already filed a bug...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > erik
> >
> >
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