After all this, you'll love what the solution was. Audio appeared to be workin in Flash on my 32-bit Lenny netbook with an HDA-Intel card. But there was one small problem-- no sound actually came out of the card. In alsamixer, nothing I used previously ever actually made use of the PCM fader-- not JACK, not Ekiga, not mplayer, not anything that I used. So I had gotten into the habit of leaving it at zero most of the time. The LineOut fader is the one that actually did work, so that's what I used. There was one exception though. Flash audio, for some reason, actually makes use of the PCM fader. I brought up the PCM fader, and, lo and behold, no Wine required, the regular proprietary Adobe Flash for Linux, and regular Iceweasel for Lenny, and I now can watch Jon Stewart at last and hear what he's saying. Yay. Thanks to everyone who responded. For future reference: "check your ALSA faders first" is good advice for anyone with audio trouble in Flash. -ken --------------- On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:58:15PM -1000, david wrote: > Ken Restivo wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:54:32PM -1000, david wrote: > >> Ken Restivo wrote: > >>> I've successfully gotten Firefox to run on Wine with Adobe Flash > >>> (presumably so that I can actually see people's websites, and > >>> listen to their music. Sheesh.). This is on a 32-bit system. > >> And I use Firefox on Linux with Adobe Flash to listen to music and > >> watch videos. Any particular reason why you're using the Windows > >> version for FF via WINE? > >> > >>> But no sound. WineCfg seems to think that the only drivers > >>> available are dmix, but I don't have dmix configured, or running, > >>> and I do NOT want dmix at all! > >> I've never tried to do anything involving sound with WINE, so > >> haven't a clue ... > > > > Hmm. Still not a-werkin'. > > > > youtube-dl works perfectly for downloading YouTube, but that's not > > why I want Flash. I need Flash so I can finally go to people's > > goddamned MySpace pages and listen to their music. And see Facebook > > and MySpace videos. > > Hmmm, playing MySpace music from Flogging Molly > <http://www.myspace.com/floggingmolly> right now in FF with Linux Flash > Player 10, no performance problem whatsoever. > > Also a video of the Michael Jackson memorial. My only unhappiness about > MJ's death is he didn't take Britney, Madonna and the rest of the > "artists" of crap pop music with him. > > Don't have a Facebook login, so can't test that. > > > And DailyKosTV videos. And to see bands' and > > labels' websites, which too often show up as big grey squares on my > > browser, with nothing in them: too many of them are Flash-only. > > What distro are you using? Debian Lenny here, with not RT kernel. > > My recent work installing an audio distro on what is now the > synth/effects box makes me think that Ubuntu is about at the end of its > life as an audio platform. Ubuntu seems to be steering away from > supporting the needs of pro audio. For instance, trying their RT-kernel > on a fresh UbuntuStudio install was sufficient to hose it ... > > > The Linux version of Flash always seems to be 2-3 versions behind the > > Windoze version. And sites too often complain about that. > > Hmm, haven't encountered that. > > > So I was > > not going to bother with Flash at all on Linux, just run WINE > > instead. I've never seen a "free flash substitute" that actually > > worked, so I'm not bothering with those. > > I've tried a couple of those. Never got them to work. Some wouldn't even > give me an empty gray area where the Flash video was. > > > Also, it's nice to have two separate browsers: one with flash, and > > one without. I can thus use firefox.exe as my Flash/MySpace/etc > > browser occasionally when I need it. > > I suppose that's one good point. But Firefox with NoScript essentially > gives me the same functionality. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
