Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks
after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on
concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system.
The problem appears to be with esd. Esd (appears to be ) used by
default by gnome and is started--esd -nobeeps--when you log in. This
works fine with everything: xmms, xine, etc. The only case in which it
doesn't work is when the flash plugin is invoked from a web browser.
The animation will soon stop and the browser is toast. I feel
fortunate today to discover that if esd is first killed before
going to a website running flash, the flash runs fine albeit without
sound. If "auto_spawn=0" is changed to "1" in /etc/esound/esd.conf and
any esd processes are first killed, going to a flash website will
automatically start an esd process and flash will play normally (with
sound!) but then nothing else, such as xmms, will work until the flash
completes and the esd processes automatically completes (after 5
seconds in my case). This kinda defeats the point of esd, doesn't it?
Can anyone help me out with what is going on here? As all other
audio/video applications I run simultaneously use the inital esd
process started by gnome, why can't flash? Should I force gnome to use
something other than esd?
Thanks,
Paul
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> Hi, so it appears that I cannot successfully play flash with my web
> browser anymore. This has begun since I upgraded to sarge. Mozilla
> (and firefox) using flashplugin-nonfree freezes when I go to common
> flash sites. The entire browser is then hosed until the processes are
> killed from another window. I bet I'm explaining something all too
> familiar for some (many?) of you, I'm guessing. Used to work fine
> with Mozilla before upgrading. I've experienced the same thing on
> a completely different computer running Red Hat 8. I'm not seeing much
> discussion about it, however. So, maybe I'm either wrong, need to
> accept it just doesn't work or am really behind in the
> discussion/solution :)
>
> Epiphany plays flash just fine. But just doesn't play the soundtrack.
> My flash life is really in the junk yard right now. Please save
> me from jumping to Windows just to see homestarrunner.com.
>
> Any help? Thanks.
>
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