'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 23/07/09 14:09 did gyre and gimble: > Anyway, I figured that maybe Iceweasel would print some interesting > error messages when run from a terminal window. That it did. I got a > flood of the following error from libasound: > > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > > So Flash doesn't seem to use the hardware directly after all! Instead, > it seems to be hardcoded to use dmix. (Hey Adobe, WTF is so hard in > using the default device??) I added this to ~/.asoundrc: > > pcm.!dmix { > type pulse > } > > And it worked! That is very interesting! I've long suspected this may be the case as users have popped up from time to time stating that this was causing issues. I think I'll put this into our standard alsa+pulse config - doubt it would do any harm. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]