hi marc, on Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:17:56AM -0400, Marc Shapiro insinuated: > I have posted before about this problem before but have still not > been able to get sound to play when running flash.
i've been having a similar problem [in galeon, both with and without
alsa], and haven't really solved it, but have found a hack workaround.
a friend pointed out that the first thing galeon (or opera, i guess)
will try to do when you open a flash movie will be to see if it can
access the sound device. if something else has been using it, for
whatever reason it thinks it can't use it too, even if it's not
currently in use (do a `fuser /dev/dsp` to find out). so, if i want
to watch a flash movie, the first thing i do upon starting X is to go
to one and play it. sound is fine for me in flash if it's the first
sound thing i access. if i've used xmms or ogg123 or something before
then, it won't work.
it's obnoxious, but it works for me for now. hope it helps you, too
...
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