On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:27:14 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I recently updated my Debian testing desktop (which moved it to Gnome 3) > and now the Adobe flash plugin doesn't give me any sound any more. > Luckily, Gnash gives me sound OK, but I'd still like to solve the issue > with the Adobe plugin for those sites that don't work with Gnash. > So, from what I understand the issue is that Adobe flash tries to output > the sound via ALSA but that doesn't work (hence the errors I get on > stderr "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open > slave") because ALSA considers itself "busy with pulseaudio".
Strange. I have never had any problems with flashplayer sound while pulseaudio was active. (I don't use Gnome, though.) > I'd love to get help here: > - how do I work around the problem so that Adobe's flash plugin gives > me sound? > - why is ALSA's dmix refusing connections (after all, its name claims > it's a mixer, so it should accept more than one input stream). I would like to see the output of: lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio cat /proc/asound/cards lsof $(find /dev/ -group audio) -- Regards, | Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120227204721.GA8531@isar.localhost