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On Tuesday 24 June 2008 23:39, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Steve Lee wrote: > > 2008/6/23 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Having got bored with the BBC site complaining of not having the correct > >> flash player I've 'upgraded' to 9 and now get no sound from it - anyone > >> got any ideas on how to fix this? > > > > iPlayer? > > Do make sure you don't have another sound using program running. Linux > > can be pretty reluctant to share the sound. > > Well the secret is to ensure that you don't have more that one program > accessing sound hardware directly. If your application uses OSS and hits > /dev/dsp directly then only one is possible at once. The solution is to > use a sound server, ASLA, ESD, etc even artsd in kde. > > There are also wrapper scripts artsdsp for example that can wrap a false > /dev/dsp and for an application and redirect through artsd or alsa (as > applicable) transparently. > > Bare in mind that for embedded flashplayers, its firefox that needs the > wrapping/directing to a sound server and i think the startup scripts > (for firefox) on debian anyway allow this to happen. Other distros > probably do similar things > > Robin I've spent ages trying to work out how to fix this - but no success and returned to the pre-messing about setup. Today it works! On another machine it took a few hours and started working - could there be some kind of 'wont work until I've "registered" you going on? Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html