Hi all, This is a really weird problem with sound in Flash movies. The problem is that the sound only plays once in a while. E.g., if I point Mozilla at the well-known Star Wars Gangsta Rap animation, http://www.its.caltech.edu/~po/gangsta.swf, and I keep reloading the animation, I will get sound maybe 40% of the times I reload. The same is true with Netscape 4.77, although in this case I get sound about 90% of the time.
I do not have problems with any other sound-playing program: xmms, playmidi, etc. all work properly every time. Any ideas? Does anyone else have a Soundblaster AWE32/64 and have [or not have] this problem? I put all the gory details below. Please CC: to my email since I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks in advance for any help, Kevin McCarty ----- 0) Hardware I have a Pentium II running at 266 MHz, and 128M RAM. The sound card is an ISA-PnP Soundblaster AWE64. 1) Program versions Version of Flash: 5.0 r45, downloaded from Macromedia Version of Mozilla: mozilla-browser 0.9.6-6 (Debian package) Version of Netscape: communicator-smotif-477 4.77-2 (Debian package) Version of the AWE drivers: awe-drv 0.4.3.1-1.2 (Debian package) Kernel: Linux 2.4.14 compiled from scratch, all relevant sound options installed as modules. Same problem with Debian kernel package kernel-image-2.4.7-586, though. 2) Relevant part of output of lsmod: Module Size Used by Tainted: P awe_wave 155200 0 opl3 10888 0 sb 7360 1 (autoclean) sb_lib 32128 0 (autoclean) [sb] uart401 6048 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib] sound 51596 1 (autoclean) [awe_wave opl3 sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3268 8 (autoclean) [sb_lib sound] 3) The appropriate part of my /etc/modules.conf looks like this: alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 sb alias sound-service-0-0 sound alias sound-service-0-1 opl3 alias sound-service-0-2 awe_wave alias sound-service-0-3 sound alias sound-service-0-6 sound alias midi awe_wave options sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 post-install sb /sbin/modprobe opl3 && /sbin/modprobe awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 [note: /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 is a symlink to a 512k SoundFont file, /usr/local/lib/awe/sfbank/synthgs.sbk. I don't remember where I got the file, but it works, so I don't mess with it!] 4) Output of isapnp at boot time, obtained from dmesg: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:03 isapnp: CMI8330 quirk - fixing interrupts and dma isapnp: Calling quirk for 02:00 isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range isapnp: Calling quirk for 02:02 isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports isapnp: Card 'CMI8330. Audio Adapter' isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total (The CMI8330 card is a motherboard-based card which I ignore.) 5) The sound modules when loaded output the following to /var/log/messages: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: Creative SB AWE64 PnP detected sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 5 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) <Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5 <Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0,0 sb: CMI8330. Audio Adapter detected sb: ISAPnP reports 'CMI8330. Audio Adapter' at i/o 0x240, irq 10, dma 3, 7 SB 4.13 detected OK (240) <Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x240 irq 10 dma 3,7 sb: 2 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found. YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 <Yamaha OPL3> at 0x388 ISAPnP reports AWE64 WaveTable at i/o 0x620 <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
