Hi,
I have Firefox 1.5.0.4 installed from tarball (not RPM), and it is unable to use audio (eg. flash) whenever any other app is doing it, even though audio players do play along well among themselves (eg. audacious and xine are able to play audio simultaneously).
I've looked on the net for some tips, and found some that apparently solve the problem for Ubuntu:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-...
Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem if I used the RPM?
TIA
Andre
on 07/23/2006 01:26 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-...
Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem if I used the RPM?
AFAIK fedora does not ship alsa-oss since fc4. I have the same issue though.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:44:02 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/23/2006 01:26 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-...
Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem if I used the RPM?
AFAIK fedora does not ship alsa-oss since fc4. I have the same issue though.
Mmmh... that (Firefox being unable to play sounds if other app is accessing /dev/something) is very annoying. Can someone confirm this is really due to the lack of some package (eg. alsa-oss) or to Firefox being misconfigured on Fedora? I'd really like to solve this issue, because, after all, if Ubuntu folks managed to solve it, I can't see why we wouldn't be able to do it on Fedora as well.
TIA
Andre
on 07/25/2006 05:54 PM Andre Costa wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:44:02 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/23/2006 01:26 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-...
Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem if I used the RPM?
AFAIK fedora does not ship alsa-oss since fc4. I have the same issue though.
Mmmh... that (Firefox being unable to play sounds if other app is accessing /dev/something) is very annoying. Can someone confirm this is really due to the lack of some package (eg. alsa-oss) or to Firefox being misconfigured on Fedora? I'd really like to solve this issue, because, after all, if Ubuntu folks managed to solve it, I can't see why we wouldn't be able to do it on Fedora as well.
as far as I understand, this is not firefox's issue, but macromedia flash plugin does not support alsa output only oss. There is a thread in archives of this mail list where fedora guys are explaining why the refuse to support alsa-oss. I use to ask this question concerning skype, but it is not a problem for me anymore because skype 1.3 can do alsa, and more than that - I'm not using skype anymore :)
Hi Oleksandr,
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:21:36 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/25/2006 05:54 PM Andre Costa wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:44:02 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/23/2006 01:26 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-...
Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem if I used the RPM?
AFAIK fedora does not ship alsa-oss since fc4. I have the same issue though.
Mmmh... that (Firefox being unable to play sounds if other app is accessing /dev/something) is very annoying. Can someone confirm this is really due to the lack of some package (eg. alsa-oss) or to Firefox being misconfigured on Fedora? I'd really like to solve this issue, because, after all, if Ubuntu folks managed to solve it, I can't see why we wouldn't be able to do it on Fedora as well.
as far as I understand, this is not firefox's issue, but macromedia flash plugin does not support alsa output only oss.
Sure, I know this is Macromedia's fault. The thing is that, until they solve this, it would be interesting if Fedora users could workarond this limitation, as Ubuntu users can.
There is a thread in archives of this mail list where fedora guys are explaining why the refuse to support alsa-oss.
I found this one:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00619.html
And also this one, which could end this thread =)
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00617.html
So, if what Ignacio says is true, alsa-oss shouldn't be needed. I sent him a message asking for some help, let's see what comes out of it. If anyone else can offer some guidance, please speak up =)
I use to ask this question concerning skype, but it is not a problem for me anymore because skype 1.3 can do alsa, and more than that - I'm not using skype anymore :)
=) According to Adobe's "official Linux blog" (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html) Flash9 for Linux will be based on ALSA. I hope it doesn't take too long to come out...
Regards,
Andre
on 07/30/2006 12:10 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00617.html
hm... sounds interesting
So, if what Ignacio says is true, alsa-oss shouldn't be needed. I sent him a message asking for some help, let's see what comes out of it. If anyone else can offer some guidance, please speak up =)
if you got the solution from Ignacio, please post it here. I believe lots of people are suffering from this issue.
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:20:10 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/30/2006 12:10 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00617.html
hm... sounds interesting
So, if what Ignacio says is true, alsa-oss shouldn't be needed. I sent him a message asking for some help, let's see what comes out of it. If anyone else can offer some guidance, please speak up =)
if you got the solution from Ignacio, please post it here. I believe lots of people are suffering from this issue.
Yes, I believe so. Still no answer from him, though =(
Regards,
Andre
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:20:10 -0400 oleksandr korneta atenrok@gmail.com wrote:
on 07/30/2006 12:10 PM Andre Costa wrote:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00617.html
hm... sounds interesting
So, if what Ignacio says is true, alsa-oss shouldn't be needed. I sent him a message asking for some help, let's see what comes out of it. If anyone else can offer some guidance, please speak up =)
if you got the solution from Ignacio, please post it here. I believe lots of people are suffering from this issue.
Just a followup:
I found alsa-oss on PlanetCCRMA, but installing it and following the instructions to run firefox under aoss did not work (I'm not sure I did everything right, though, because all instructions are not suitable for Fedora). Specifically, this is what I used:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix#Intro_to_dmix
It's really a pity, because it seems Fedora users are the only ones out there that can't configure Firefox to workaround the sound issue (I found detailed instructions for Gentoo and Ubuntu, but zero for Fedora =/)
Regards,
Andre
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