[CS-FSLUG] Re: Firefox sound problem!?!

[Alvin Smith]

On Monday 07 March 2005 04:02 pm, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
> Three things:
>
> 1. the video is playing, so I assume the plug-in must be present...even if
> I don't see it there. Just no sound.
>
> 2. Mozilla also does the same. At first Opera did neither.
>
> 3. I ran Firefox and used the menuing in firefox to download the plugin.
> But during installation, the flashplayer-installer only gave me mozilla and
> opera direcories as options...?!?   The installer didn't offer Firefox as
> an option.
>
> 4. I installed for both Mozilla and Opera. Both play the video, but don't
> give the sound.
>
> 5. Konqueror alone plays flash with video AND sound.
>
> Very strange.
>
> This worked fine on the other box, with  no need to load plugins, etc. It
> just worked. The only difference between the two machines is that this one
> has an integrated sound card (boo hiss!) and the other one has an SB4 Live
> value card in it. I know, it's a REAL stretch...but I wonder if that might
> be what is causing the problem? Yet, you'd expect the plugin to not care
> about your hardware...the O.S. is taking care of sound.
>
>
> Tim

Is this a KDE only box?  

Does Firefox sound work under Gnome?

Does Firefox sound work if you disable the KDE sound server aRts?
-- 
peace,
Alvin Smith
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