On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 18:47 +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2006 09:15 schrieb Leonard "paniq" Ritter: > > flash uses oss directly (/dev/dsp) and needs exclusive access to > > sound resources. if anything else is running (jack, alsa) it > > doesn't work. > > > > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:50 -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > Good News: muddled through getting Rosegarden set up and > > > actually producing sound. > > > > > > Bad News: flash sounds (wife loves em) through the browser are > > > no longer played. > > > > > > I know there's a conflict somewhere. > > > > > > could one of you point me towards a solution please? > > > > > > ubuntu, firefox, konqueror is the target environment. > > I solved this problem by starting firefox through aoss, ie aoss > firefox. You can set an alias or something to simplify this. I'm not sure if this is a Firefox thing or a Ubuntu extension, but you might be able to set FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Lee