Re: No sound on flash movies

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Wulfy:
>   
> > Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >     
> > > Iván Alemán:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound,
> > > >         
> > > I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc.
> > > Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE), I put
> > > "aoss" in there.
> > >       
> > I have the same problem. I use KDE.  What should I put in there?  I 
> > tried "aoss", "artsd" and "alsa" but they don't work...
> >     
>
> For "aoss" to work, you need to have alsa-oss installed (and use Alsa,
> obviously). Maybe that's missing. I don't know whether KDE still uses a
> sound daemon.
>
> J.
>   
I have these installed:

Yewdales-lodge:~# dpkg -l alsa*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                   Version                Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii  alsa-base              1.0.8-7                ALSA driver 
configuration files
ii  alsa-oss               1.0.8-1                ALSA wrapper for OSS 
applications
ii  alsa-utils             1.0.8-4                ALSA utilities
ii  alsamixergui           0.9.0rc2-1-7           graphical soundcard 
mixer for ALSA soundcard driver
ii  libwine-alsa           0.9.7-0bpo1            Windows API 
Implementation (ALSA Sound Module)


As I use the 2.6 kernel, I don't need the -modules, I don't think.

I think KDE uses the artsd sound daemon.


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