HOWTO
FIX
FIREFOX / FLASH PLUGIN SOUND ISSUE
Firefox has problems handling flash sound on several systems,
especially if audio from another application is being played when
Firefox loads its plugin cache. I have tested this fix in Ubuntu
6.06 Dapper. Someone from a different distribution please test
this and give me feedback on whether it works for you as well!!
1. Close all instances of Firefox and/or Mozilla.
2. Open a terminal and issue the following command:
sudo gedit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc
3. Change the file so that it contains:
FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"
4. Save and exit gedit.
5. If you don't already have the Alsa OSS wrappers installed
please install them via sudo apt-get
install alsa-oss (non-debian/ubuntu users please use your
distributions package management or build the alsa-oss package from
source).
6. Ubuntu users issue the following commands from your terminal:
mkdir /tmp/.esd/
touch /tmp/.esd/socket
sudo ln -s / sudo ln -s
/usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
7. Now create a simple bash script that will do the first 2 parts of
step 6 at boot, in ubuntu do the following:
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/flashfix.sh
-copy and paste the following to the
file and save-
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/.esd/
touch /tmp/.esd/socket
exit
now issue the command:
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/flashfix.sh
&& sudo update-rc.d flashfix.sh defaults
I know this seems like a lot to do, but hopefully it will get your
flash sound to working properly.
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client installed use our web
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Written by ttyfscker on 09232006