it's ugly, but I had the same issue, and what I did is to change the permissions to 0666 for /dev/dsp
chmod a+rw /dev/dsp Hetz On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Tom Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Constantine Shulyupin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what happend when you run > > ll /dev/dsp > > echo 1 2 3 > /dev/dsp > > ? > # ll /dev/dsp > crw------- 1 tom_rosenfeld root 14, 3 Feb 10 08:43 /dev/dsp > > The permissions look fine and the echo produces a click. > Again, all my other sound apps work fine except for youtube! > > Thanks, > -tom > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Tom Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip, however this does not seem to help. > > > But I have a few questions. > > > > > > - I do not have an 'alsa reload' Did you mean 'alsactl restore'? > > > - How do you recommend I tweak gnome-sound-properties? I currentlky have > the > > > default which does NOT enable sound server startup. > > > > > > At any rate these instructions just seem to re-init sound, but my flash > > > sound problems happens even right after a reboot. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Constantine Shulyupin > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have two another suggestions (run from root): > > > > > > > > 1. > > > > kill `lsof -t /dev/dsp` `lsof -t /dev/snd/* ` > > > > alsa reload > > > > > > > > test with: > > > > > > > > echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > /dev/dsp > > > > > > > > 2. tweak gnome-sound-properties > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Tom Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > I tried Noam's suggestion below but it did not help. > > > > > > > > > > I did not have an /etc/firefox/firefoxrc file, so I created it as > > > described > > > > > below. I restarted firefox, but flash still di not work. /dev/dsp > was > > > fine. > > > > > Again sound works fine in all my other media apps. > > > > > > > > > > Any more suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > -tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Noam Rathaus > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I seen this behavior which is caused by ALSA configuration not > being > > > used > > > > > by > > > > > > the flash player, make sure: > > > > > > > > > > > > 1) In /etc/firefox/firefoxrc > > > > > > FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" > > > > > > > > > > > > 2) /dev/dsp is there > > > > > > > > > > > > if not > > > > > > cd /dev > > > > > > sudo ./MAKEDEV audio > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > These two solved it for me. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday 18 February 2008 15:31:13 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > > > > > > I am having trouble with sound not working in flash. E.g. > Youtube > > > videos > > > > > > > play video fine but there is no sound. Web searches show others > are > > > > > having > > > > > > > the same trouble, usually with older versions of the plugin, but > I > > > have > > > > > not > > > > > > > seen any real solutions. Reading the web leads me to conclude > that > > > maybe > > > > > I > > > > > > > need to change some ALSA setting, but I have no idea where to > start. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sound seems to work fine in other applications (e.g. vlc, > mplayer)). > > > > > Here > > > > > > > is my config: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > CentOS 4 64 bit > > > > > > > Firefox 2, 32 bit > > > > > > > Flash plugin 9,0,115,0 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > -tom > > > > > > > 054-244-8025 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Noam Rathaus > > > > > > CTO > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > http://www.beyondsecurity.com > > > > > > > > > > > > "Know that you are safe." > > > > > > > > > > > > Beyond Security Finalist for the "Red Herring 100 Global" Awards > 2007 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > -tom > > > > > 054-244-8025 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Constantine Shulyupin > > > > Freelance Embedded Linux Engineer > > > > 054-4234440 > > > > http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -tom > > > 054-244-8025 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Constantine Shulyupin > > Freelance Embedded Linux Engineer > > 054-4234440 > > http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ > > > > > > -- > -tom > 054-244-8025 -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]