[OT] Getting Flash to work in Firefox on Linux

[kenny]

kenny wrote:
> Michiel wrote:
>> kenny wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>> The output is empty.
>>
>> Though let me clarify: I do get sound out of other applications (like
>> Xine). But only one application at a time.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> 
> when I do:
> 
> L3 ~ # ls /dev/snd/
> controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  seq  timer
> 
> 
> does yours look like that too? It looks like xine is using a different interface to the sound than it should. For example, I emerged gxine so I could show you:
> 
> 
> L3 ~ # lsof | grep xine | grep snd
> gxine      6950       root  mem       CHR     116,16                 2975 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> gxine      6950       root    9u      CHR      116,0                 2966 /dev/snd/controlC0
> gxine      6950       root   15r      CHR     116,33                 3091 /dev/snd/timer
> ... truncated ...
> 
> I'm not exactly sure, but I'd look into that.

let me clarify, I mean I think *your* xine is using a different interface than it should. Which one is it using for you? Also, if you lsof | grep /dev/dsp does anything come up?