[OT] Getting Flash to work in Firefox on Linux
Lionello Lunesu
lio at lunesu.remove.com
Mon Feb 26 01:03:54 PST 2007
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Michiel wrote (in a different thread):
> > kenny wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't
> >> work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and
> >> everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is
> >> being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the
> >> old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa.
> >
> > I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of
> > Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support
> > and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas.
>
> I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite
> some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread.
>
> If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!
>
>
> Andrei
I have Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit, and got Flash 9 to work in Firefox with
sound and everything. I just followed this guide:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341727
I did have a audio recording problem in Skype, which I solved by
removing /etc/asound.conf.
L.
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