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Re: [LUG] Flash Player 9

 

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 23:39, Robin Cornelius wrote:
> Steve Lee wrote:
> > 2008/6/23 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Having got bored with the BBC site complaining of not having the correct
> >> flash player I've 'upgraded' to 9 and now get no sound from it - anyone
> >> got any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> > iPlayer?
> > Do make sure you don't have another sound using program running. Linux
> > can be pretty reluctant to share the sound.
>
> Well the secret is to ensure that you don't have more that one program
> accessing sound hardware directly. If your application uses OSS and hits
> /dev/dsp directly then only one is possible at once. The solution is to
> use a sound server, ASLA, ESD, etc even artsd in kde.
>
> There are also wrapper scripts artsdsp for example that can wrap a false
> /dev/dsp and for an application and redirect through artsd or alsa (as
> applicable) transparently.
>
> Bare in mind that for embedded flashplayers, its firefox that needs the
> wrapping/directing to a sound server and i think the startup scripts
> (for firefox) on debian anyway allow this to happen. Other distros
> probably do similar things
>
> Robin
I've spent ages trying to work out how to fix this - but no success and 
returned to the pre-messing about setup.
Today it works!
On another machine it took a few hours and started working - could there be 
some kind of 'wont work until I've "registered" you going on?
Tom te tom te tom


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