On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:29 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > Any tips for where to begin troubleshooting the problem I have? What > > should I check to see where things are failing? > > Well I guess that 32-bit sound is working OK pulseaudio libs seeing as > your flash9 + libflashsupport is working OK. > > Do you know 100% that 32-bit sound via *alsa* is working OK? e.g. do you > have the necessary 32-bit alsa-lib + alsa-plugins installed for that? > > For me libflashsupport works happily with flash10 but if you've removed > it then your flash will be trying to use alsa and without the above > mentioned libraries, it will fail. > > If you reinstall libflashsupport, try looking in "lsof | grep > flashsupport" to make sure that the library is indeed in use. > > Failing finding anything useful in that, try checking the output of > pulseaudio -vvv (kill the old one!) and trying to see if flash even > tries to connect to the PA daemon. Thanks for the tips, Colin. So I tried running pulseaudio -vvv from the command-line to see what was going on in the PA side. I initially started without libflashsupport. Surfing over to a youtube page with video and audio, I saw the usual video and couldn't hear any audio. No activity on the PA front. I then "yum install"ed libflashsupport, which resulted in the following output from PA: D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=InterfaceLockAcquired D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=PropertyModified D: module-hal-detect.c: dbus: interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device, path=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, member=InterfaceLockReleased All normal, I figured. (Side question, though: how does flash-plugin make use of libflashsupport when it's just a library that sits in /usr/lib64/? Is there some rpm post script that somehow links the library to flash-plugin?) After installation, I restarted mozilla and got: I: client.c: Created 1 "EsounD client (UNIX socket client)" At least mozilla seems to have connected fine. Then I surf back to the youtube page, and again no audio and no activity on the PA log side. I don't know what flash-plugin uses for audio so I'm not sure what's missing and why the two aren't connecting. Any more suggestions? -- Richi
