Re: Sounds problems, crashing Firefox

[Roberto Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>]

Quoting Cliff Flood <cliph@cli.ph>:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a quite annoying and productivity impacting issue with sound 
> on my workstation. (my $HOME/.esd.conf and $HOME/.asoundrc are attached)
> When ever I encounter a website that has flash that includes sound 
> (annoying I know) my browser Firefox crashes. My sound card (I have a 
> Dell Optiplex GX240) doesn't support hardware mixing so there's what I 
> think is a mostly working attempt to achieve software mixing in my
> .asoundrc
> 
> Some thing's not right and I'm having to kill a hung Firefox several 
> times a day. If anyone has a working software mixing setup, or can point 
> me to some useful resources I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> Regards,

Are you using the proprietary Flash plugin?  If so, that is probably the cause.
I have always had problems with it, including hanging/crashing Firefox and the
general annoyance that is flash :-)

-Roberto Sanchez

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