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Nope cant be that - sounds gone again - nothing changed!!!On Sunday 29 June 2008 09:40, Tom Potts wrote:
> 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
Tom te tom te tom
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