[OT] Getting Flash to work in Firefox on Linux

[kenny]

Michiel wrote:
> Alberto wrote:
> 
>>> I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version
>>> not in portage yet?
>>>
>> there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable:
>> KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86"
>>
>> that from the adobe site:
>>
>>  Version: 9,0,31,0
>>  Platform: Linux
>>  Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey
>>  Date Posted: 1/16/2007
>>  Language: English
>>
>> it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)
> 
> Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still
> doesn't work.
> 

can you paste me "lsof | grep snd"

if you don't have lsof, emerge lsof

The reason why I say this is because if you have a device using the old oss interface, I've seen my sound not work before. running that command, I can find out what devices are using my sound, to close them