On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:10 +0000, Mark Knoop wrote: > On 23/01/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:12 -0600, Justin W wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with my sound every time I use Firefox. From what > > > I'm able to gather, Firefox is locking my sound device somehow and > > > will play most of the time while the rest of my system is unable to > > > make a sound. > > > > Just a note to say that you're not alone. I have also had sites that > > use sound (whether it be part of Flash, or some background racket), make > > it impossible to play sounds with other applications until you quit > > Firefox./usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.3/plugins/flashplayer.xpt.old > > It is unlikely that Firefox is the culprit, more likely that a plugin > is to blame. The old version of Flash did not use alsa and did tend to > hang on to the sound device. Have you installed the new version > 9.0.31? What other plugins are you using? > > -- I've also had this problem a lot. I finally figured out it was flash related so I removed the plugin, or so I thought. A little while ago I went to www.thegolfchannel.com and their page played a flash app.I lost sound. No sound in gaim or my vmware windows XP OS. That one actually gives me an error. I checked and I have the plugin here still: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/plugins/libflashplayer.so Is firefox picking it up from here even though I do not have it at /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/plugins? Even if I close that tab sound still is not restored. I have to completely kill firefox-bin to get sound back. Any other workaround for this? I would like to keep flash. Even if I had to do something special to restore sound when it fails, other than completely killing firefox. Thanks, James
