Re: Firefox with flash and sound

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:36:32 +1000, Caveman <commscentral@gmail.com> wrote:
> No I am using alsa.
> 
> Adnrea: Sorry about the personal email before. I forgot to send to
> list !!! instead.
> 
> Caveman
> 
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:28:14 +0200, Andrea Vettorello
> 
> 
> <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:58:27 +1000, Caveman <commscentral@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have noticed a strange issue with the firefox debian package.
> > > When you use flash everything works fine except sound with flash.
> > > It works fine on mozilla however.
> > >
> > > But I have just discovered that the firefox binary from mozilla.org
> > > works fine with exactly the same plugin and settings etc.
> > >
> > > So I am thinking something has been stuffed up with the deb package.
> > >
> > > Any ideas ?
> > >
> >
> > Are you using sound managers, like ART or ESD?
> >

IIRC the mozilla package has a debconf option to choose a sound daemon
or set a reasonable default, firefox don't has this choice but don't
know if it's related. Sometimes i've had troubles too after using java
applets with sound (i'm using the SUN 1.4.2 sdk), as Michael Marsh
said...


Andrea