Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany) (SOLVED!)

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
SOLUTION: On my system to get Flash to play, the esd process needs to be running with the "-as" argument (set to 5 in my case) and the dsp wrapper value for Mozilla (or Firefox) needs to be "none" (as can be set by 'dpkg-reconfigure mozilla'). EMBELLISHMENT: I finally found a config that I'm reall

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-08-05 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Karl E. Jorgensen-- > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:49:24PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I tried taking "-terminate" out of my esd.conf. I logged out and > > back in. Indeed esd was started by Gnome (as I have sound for Gnome > > enabled) a

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-08-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:49:24PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I tried taking "-terminate" out of my esd.conf. I logged out and > back in. Indeed esd was started by Gnome (as I have sound for Gnome > enabled) and without the "-terminate" argument but Flash would not play > correctly in a bro

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-08-03 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Carl Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require > > > esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices > > > can use it. That allows m

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Carl Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require > > > esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices > > > can use it. That allows

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require > > esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices > > can use it. That allows me to use programs with both esd and /dev/dsp > > output, but not at the same ti

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Yeatman
> Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I now am convinced that the problem resides with the appearance that > > Flash accesses /dev/dsp directly creating a conflict anytime another > > application has already locked the dsp device first, such as esd. The > > Mozilla wrapper that seems t

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I now am convinced that the problem resides with the appearance that > Flash accesses /dev/dsp directly creating a conflict anytime another > application has already locked the dsp device first, such as esd. The > Mozilla wrapper that seems to offer a wa

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-22 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:14:03 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned > > I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the > >

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-22 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:14:03 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned > I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the > flash correctly (and not have my browser die), I assumed the flash was > sp

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the flash correctly (and not have my browser die), I assumed the flash was spawning its own esd process. Actually, I just noticed that, while flash is playing c

Re: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ->>In response to your message<<- > > --received from Wim De Smet-- > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Wim De Smet-- > > > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until toda

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:49:46 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Jacob S.-- > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jacob S.-- > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed > > my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'. > > Start mozill

Re: Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed > my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'. > Start mozilla. Go to a flash site; Freezes. I then set it back > to esddsp just to tes

Fwd: Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Wim De Smet-- > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks > > after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > > conce

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks > after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system. > The probl

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jacob S.-- > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:20:20 -0400 > Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 07/20/04 18:40, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > > > I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this > > > could be the difference. W

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-21 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ralph Katz-- > >I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this > >could be the difference. Well, actually, how do I confirm OSS > >drivers? > > While I'm no expert, I can see mine here on this stock kernel: > > ~$ grep -i os

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-20 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:20:20 -0400 Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/20/04 18:40, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > > I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this > > could be the difference. Well, actually, how do I confirm OSS > > drivers? > > While I'm no expert, I can

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/20/04 18:40, Paul Yeatman wrote: I'm fairly sure the system is using esd with OSS drivers so this could be the difference. Well, actually, how do I confirm OSS drivers? While I'm no expert, I can see mine here on this stock kernel: ~$ grep -i oss /boot/config-2.4.25-1-686 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSS

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-20 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi and thanks so much for the reply. ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jacob S.-- > That's odd. I'm using esd on my system (previously with OSS drivers, now > with Alsa) and I can hear sound from flash just fine; as well as play > xmms at the same time, etc. I'm fairly sure the

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-20 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, > weeks after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on > concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system. > The probl

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-20 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system. The problem appears to be with esd. Esd (appears to be ) used by default by gnome and is sta

flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-06-30 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, so it appears that I cannot successfully play flash with my web browser anymore. This has begun since I upgraded to sarge. Mozilla (and firefox) using flashplugin-nonfree freezes when I go to common flash sites. The entire browser is then hosed until the processes are killed from another win