Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:21:35 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: James McNaughton <jtmcnaughton@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Flash player sound solution Message-ID: <200503122221.35745.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050312134243.65565.qmail@web81708.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050312134243.65565.qmail@web81708.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Saturday 12 March 2005 05:42 am, James McNaughton <jtmcnaughton@yahoo.com> wrote: > The Problem: > > Using native Mozilla and > linuxpluginwrapper/linux-flashplugin (on 4.10-stable > et al) to view flash content results in no sound and > occasional Mozilla freezes. > > The Solution: > > Run esd. > > How: > > I was searching the web for the solution, and got > nowhere. There didn't seem to be anyone who had gotten > it to work. Linux mailing lists noted a problem with > file permissions on /dev/snd or /dev/pcm* depending on > the sound system drivers installed. My /dev/pcm* file > permissions were all rw to begin with, so this didn't > help. > > I wondered what device the plugin was actually trying > to access, so I did "strings > /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so" > and found /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. Nearby in the list > I noticed a few lines relating to esd. From a command > line I started esd and went back to view some content > that had previously frozen Mozilla, and there was > sound coming out my speakers and the browser did not > hang. > > I had long suspected the browser hangs were related to > sound in the flash content. My results seem to confirm > that suspicion. Do you have an example (or two or more) of a page that causes the crash? I'd like to test this on 5.3-R. I know I used to have an email around here somewhere with examples ... - jt
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