I have been all up and down my Firefox options, and all up and down whatever sound card configurations I could find in Gnome. And I just can't get sound to work. Whether it's a Flash animation, a Quicktime movie, or anything, they all run, but no sound.
All other applications that run sound, like Xine or XMMS, work fine (although mysteriously XMMS every now and again loses it's connection to my sound device.)
When I look on Google for help, every FireFox related page ultimately says "check your sound configuration" without much more to offer.
I'm totally stumped. I'm not even sure where to look anymore.
Any suggestions?
Dave
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:28 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
I have been all up and down my Firefox options, and all up and down whatever sound card configurations I could find in Gnome. And I just can't get sound to work. Whether it's a Flash animation, a Quicktime movie, or anything, they all run, but no sound.
All other applications that run sound, like Xine or XMMS, work fine (although mysteriously XMMS every now and again loses it's connection to my sound device.)
When I look on Google for help, every FireFox related page ultimately says "check your sound configuration" without much more to offer.
I'm totally stumped. I'm not even sure where to look anymore.
Any suggestions?
Save the following as ~/.asoundrc and kill all apps using sound:
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/files/Em-asoundrc
Save the following as ~/.asoundrc and kill all apps using sound:
Holy smoke, that worked like a charm! Worked so well in fact that I'm kind of stunned.
What the heck happened? What was that magical file? Why was it not there before and how was it so obvious that was the problem?
I'm keen to learn!
Dave
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:32 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
Save the following as ~/.asoundrc and kill all apps using sound:
Holy smoke, that worked like a charm! Worked so well in fact that I'm kind of stunned.
What the heck happened? What was that magical file? Why was it not there before and how was it so obvious that was the problem?
I'm keen to learn!
Some soundcards support hardware mixing, some don't. If the card doesn't then subsequent requests to open the audio device will be denied. The file provided activates the dmix ALSA plugin which does software mixing instead. dmix will always allow multiple apps to open the audio device since it does the mixing itself.
It's not there by default since software mixing does use some CPU power, and not all cards need it.
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