Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:27:14 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I recently updated my Debian testing desktop (which moved it to Gnome 3)
> and now the Adobe flash plugin doesn't give me any sound any more.
> Luckily, Gnash gives me sound OK, but I'd still like to solve the issue
> with the Adobe plugin for those sites that don't work with Gnash.
> So, from what I understand the issue is that Adobe flash tries to output
> the sound via ALSA but that doesn't work (hence the errors I get on
> stderr "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open
> slave") because ALSA considers itself "busy with pulseaudio".
Strange. I have never had any problems with flashplayer sound while
pulseaudio was active. (I don't use Gnome, though.)
> I'd love to get help here:
> - how do I work around the problem so that Adobe's flash plugin gives
> me sound?
> - why is ALSA's dmix refusing connections (after all, its name claims
> it's a mixer, so it should accept more than one input stream).
I would like to see the output of:
lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio
cat /proc/asound/cards
lsof $(find /dev/ -group audio)
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Regards, |
Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu
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