Re: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> ->>In response to your message<<-
> --received from Wim De Smet--
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > This is, actually, a known problem. Do dpk-reconfigure -plow
> > mozilla-browser and you will get an option asking you to choose a
> > wrapper for esd. It is explained there that the plugin locks /dev/dsp
> > which causes esd to hang. So choose a wrapper here and the problem
> > *should* be resolved.
>
> Hmmmm. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed
> my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'.
> Start mozilla. Go to a flash site; Freezes. I then set it back
> to esddsp just to test it again. Same thing. I also tried
> "artdsp" and flash runs and without killing my browser but no sound.
> Same thing with "none" as would be expected. So . . . not sure what to
> say :)
>
Strange thing. There might be a bug there. I haven't got this problem
for a long time now though, but I'm currently not running esd
apparently (did this go away in 2.6? I don't remember disabling it)
and I use alsa with OSS emulation.
greets,
Wim
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