Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)
Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> writes:
> I now am convinced that the problem resides with the appearance that
> Flash accesses /dev/dsp directly creating a conflict anytime another
> application has already locked the dsp device first, such as esd. The
> Mozilla wrapper that seems to offer a way around this doesn't appear to
> work for me.
>
> My current solution is to change the default behavior of esd from
> "auto_spawn" being set to off to being on and, as I'm using gnome,
> either disabling sound in gnome altogether or killing the esd process
> that is started once I log in. This solution is satisfactory for
> the moment but took quite awhile to figure out.
Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require
esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices
can use it. That allows me to use programs with both esd and /dev/dsp
output, but not at the same time.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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