[CS-FSLUG] Re: Firefox sound problem...It was aRts!

[timbrown at ichristian.com]

Thanks Alvin...That did it! now if I can only remember why or when I turned 
on Arts!

...back to check on my screensaver  issue... 

Tim 

Alvin Smith writes: 

> 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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