On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 16:32:46 -0500, Tom Ashley wrote:
> > Hi John, > > > > Thanks for the response. I can play the mp3s withouth any problem. My > > problem appears to be limited to flash audio. > > The default configuration for iceweasel is ICEWEASEL_DSP="none" which > means it will try to play audio by accessing the ALSA /dev/snd/* devices > directly. (You can change this setting in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc, as > Andrei has already pointed out.) > > If I run iceweasel in this default configuration and play a youtube > video (with sound, of course) then I see this: > > $ lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' > npviewer. 9886 florian mem CHR 116,16 7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > npviewer. 9886 florian 63r CHR 116,33 7000 /dev/snd/timer > npviewer. 9886 florian 64u CHR 116,16 7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > > (I edited the output above to trim excessive whitespace.) > > This means that iceweasel's flash plugin cannot play sound if some other > process is blocking these devices. If you are using KDE or Gnome then > the devices are probably under the control of a sound daemon (artsd or > esd, respectively). Run the "lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp'" command before > you start iceweasel to see which process is blocking the device(s). The > first quick test is to kill the blocking process and check if this > allows iceweasel to play sound in flash movies. > > If a sound daemon is indeed responsible for locking the devices then you > can either tell it to share the device (this is possible in KDE, I don't > know about Gnome's esd) or you can try to configure iceweasel for > playing audio via the sound daemon by putting one of these into > /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc: > > ICEWEASEL_DSP="artsdsp" # for KDE's artsd > > or > > ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp" # for Gnome's esd > > Iceweasel has to be restarted after changing the settings. I took these > options from "man iceweasel" but I never tried them myself. (I told my > artsd not to hog the ALSA devices and this works fine with iceweasel's > default DSP="none" setting.) > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > Hi Florian, Using the clues from your reference to /dev/snd, I discovered I had no /dev/snd/ and esd was not being loaded. Unable to determine why by Googling, I decided to remove all ALSA and ESD related packages and to reinstall. In doing so, /dev/snd/ was created and ESD is now active. Thanks to all for your patience and help. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
