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On Sunday 29 June 2008 09:40, Tom Potts wrote: > 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 Nope cant be that - sounds gone again - nothing changed!!! 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