Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)
- To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)
- From: Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:49:24 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20040803214924.GA14993@ucsd.edu>
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->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Carl Johnson--
>
> Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, this is what makes things work for me now and is essentially how
> > I'm running things although I'm currently using the default of 5
> > seconds (if I have any problem with this, I might try a shorter time as
> > you are using). Thanks for offering the suggestion.
> >
> > The only bummer with this setup is that not all audio calls (that don't
> > use /dev/dsp directly) starts the esd process automatically. I don't
> > hear the general Gnome event sounds anymore, for instance, and I'm
> > assuming that this is because esd is no longer running in the
> > background and, apparently, they don't start the esd process on their
> > own. Some people would likely say "good" to this. I kinda miss 'em.
> > A very minor complaint. I'm happier to have Flash working :)
>
> Something seems to be different about your system, since my esd
> process doesn't exit, but simply closes its connection to /dev/dsp.
> It sounds like you might be using the '-terminate' option. If you
> are, try it without it, but still with the '-as' option. Of course,
> just because it satisfies my needs doesn't mean that it will satify
> yours.
> --
> Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
>
Hi, I tried taking "-terminate" out of my esd.conf. I logged out and
back in. Indeed esd was started by Gnome (as I have sound for Gnome
enabled) and without the "-terminate" argument but Flash would not play
correctly in a browser until I killed the esd process. Once I killed
the process, I could play Flash and applications like xmms would start
their own esd process for sound but system/event sounds (from Gnome
and such) could no longer be heard.
Paul
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Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 pyeatman@ucsd.edu
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