On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700 Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> wrote: > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, > weeks after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system. > The problem appears to be with esd. Esd (appears to be ) used by > default by gnome and is started--esd -nobeeps--when you log in. This > works fine with everything: xmms, xine, etc. The only case in which > it doesn't work is when the flash plugin is invoked from a web > browser. The animation will soon stop and the browser is toast. I > feel fortunate today to discover that if esd is first killed before > going to a website running flash, the flash runs fine albeit without > sound. If "auto_spawn=0" is changed to "1" in /etc/esound/esd.conf > and any esd processes are first killed, going to a flash website will > automatically start an esd process and flash will play normally (with > sound!) but then nothing else, such as xmms, will work until the flash > completes and the esd processes automatically completes (after 5 > seconds in my case). This kinda defeats the point of esd, doesn't it? > Can anyone help me out with what is going on here? As all other > audio/video applications I run simultaneously use the inital esd > process started by gnome, why can't flash? Should I force gnome to > use something other than esd? That's odd. I'm using esd on my system (previously with OSS drivers, now with Alsa) and I can hear sound from flash just fine; as well as play xmms at the same time, etc. What happens if you kill any existing esd instances, run "esd &" from a terminal in X (assuming you're logged in as a user, not root) and then run "esdctl unlock"? Are you able to play both xmms and flash sounds? Also, you are using the esd output plugin in xmms, aren't you? HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #43: Q: How many Microsoft Programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: It cannot be done. You will need to upgrade your house. Q: How many Linux users does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Two. One to write the HOWTO-LIGHTBULB-CRONJOB, and another to read it.
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