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Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)



On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:01:43 +1300, Jeff wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:43:05 +1300, Jeff wrote:

[...]

>>>> It was short lived because when i logged out and in again The browser 
>>>> sound stopped woking?
>>>>       
>>
>> Then there is probably some other application blocking the sound device.
>> Running alsaconf temporarily unloads all sound modules and thus kills
>> all applications which hang on to sound devices. This would explain why
>> your browser could then play sound.
>>
>> Since this blocking process seems to be restarted at every login, I
>> would guess that it is a sound daemon (esd for Gnome, artsd for KDE).
>> Please tell us how you login (gdm?), which DE/window manager you use
>> (Gnome?), which sound daemon is running, and, for that matter, which
>> browser we are talking about (I assume it is Mozilla/Iceape, but which
>> version?).

[...]

> I have esound installed as well as alsaplayer-daemon. Window manager is GDM 
> and Iceweasel 2.0.0.6-0etch1+leni browser . Wonder if esound is the 
> culprit?

Just kill the suspicious processes one by one until iceweasel can play
sound. (You might have to restart iceweasel for each new try.)

The output of

lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp'

might be helpful, too.

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