On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:30:22 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded and installed Macromedia Flash plug-in for Mozilla > (1.4-4). When browsing to a web location with flash content, the browser > hangs.
I guess you have some app playing sound in the background. Maybe it's a music player such as XMMS, or a sound daemon (watch out for ESD, ARTS, JACK, ...) If your soundcard can only handle one app at a time (most cheap onboard sound chips), then Mozilla will hang until you let the stupid Flash plugin access your soundcard. Possible strategies: a) Get a real soundcard. I like my SB Live very much, and would never again rely on onboard solutions. It has _much_ better sound quality, and is well-supported by ALSA. b) Use your sound daemon. Probably, you're already running one. Put it to use, and run Mozilla via a wrapper such als esddsp or artsdsp. IIRC the Debian packages for Mozilla even can do that automatically for you. Try to dpkg-reconfigure your Mozilla :-) > modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 modprobe: Can't locate module > sound-service-1-0 The stupid thing tries to grab the second sound device, but you don't have one. (Insert the usual anti-Flash rant here.) > I wonder if somebody is using this plug-in in his sid box successfuly. > Any feedback will be very useful for me, so thanks in advance. My success varies a lot. The only websites which yield browser crashes are those with Flash advertising. It's not reproducible, but it happens. May well be Galeon's fault, too, although I don't think so. -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
