On 10/09/2007, Jima <jima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Michel Salim wrote: > > On 09/09/2007, Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop@xxxxxx> wrote: > > [snip] > >> 2. Use alsa-oss to allow Firefox (or its plugins) play sound. AFAIK they > >> use OSS now, which will fail in most cases, because /dev/dsp is almost > >> constantly in use by arts/esd/whatever. > >> > > Last time I tried, on a 64-bit platform you can not use alsa-oss with > > 32-bit Firefox. Still nice if you happen to be running at the native > > wordsize, though. > > Last time you tried might have been before I fixed aoss to allow for > that. :-) > The aoss script first checks if you have the 64-bit library, and by > default uses that. *Unless* you incant it with the first argument of > "-32", in which case it'll check if you have the 32-bit library, and if > so, use it instead (and error out if not, which may be a bit unhelpful if > it's initiated by a GUI). Ah! I currently do not have my Fedora laptop with me, so I could not check, and before that, I have been using a dmix-enabled sound device, so my observation was rather out-of-date. -- Michel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
