Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-10 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > > So presumably I need to set this into either ~/.sound or /etc/alsa.conf > and > > try to test from a text console as: > > > > aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > >

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-09 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > So presumably I need to set this into either ~/.sound or /etc/alsa.conf and > try to test from a text console as: > > aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > and if that works then the default channel will have been set as the H

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:35 PM, LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT < olivier.pis.langl...@transport.alstom.com> wrote: > > Mike, > > I cannot think what would stop you from running a browser without any DE > or WM. Just edit your ~/.xinitrc. > > Just add firefox to it. > > then > > startx > > It will run

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > I was unsure what was meant by trying to set up without KDE in the > > way? I > presumed that I could only run the chrome browser within a D.E. in order to > test the problem of flashplayer running a video with sound output? It was > not clear to me how to do that unless I had a different D.E.

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote: > > > since he's using KDE anyway, why not use pulseaudio instead? it's > > the default for the big DEs, and in my experience it doesn't screw > > up one's system anymore, as it used to in

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 15:47:24 +0100 Cédric Girard wrote: > I am not sure if adding an extra layer which happens to bring new > useful features is always the best solution to a problem. certainly not; depends on priorities. i found it easier to go with the flow, using KDE's default instead of worki

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Cédric Girard wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > Also I can get sound coming out of the monitor speakers with: > > > > aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > > > However if I run chrome and play a flash video

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote: > since he's using KDE anyway, why not use pulseaudio instead? it's > the default for the big DEs, and in my experience it doesn't screw > up one's system anymore, as it used to in the beginning. > > mostly, at least for me, it simply works. s

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread German Cabarcas
Didn't lib32-libflashsupport used to be required in order to have full support on 64 systems?

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:16:23 +0100 Cédric Girard wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > Also I can get sound coming out of the monitor speakers with: > > > > aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > > > However if I run chrome and play a flash vi

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Cédric Girard
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Also I can get sound coming out of the monitor speakers with: > > aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > However if I run chrome and play a flash video the video I can see fine - > but there is no sound. > > I have read

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Mike Cloaked
Yes I guess that is worth a shot! Thanks. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.02.2013 19:48, schrieb Mike Cloaked: > > I have a machine which has an HDMI monitor and which has sound coming > > through the monitor via HDMI just fine when playing music from Amarok and >

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.02.2013 19:48, schrieb Mike Cloaked: > I have a machine which has an HDMI monitor and which has sound coming > through the monitor via HDMI just fine when playing music from Amarok and > login system sounds play fine too. I had selected the appropriate hdmi > channel in kmix for all the avai

[arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-06 Thread Mike Cloaked
I have a machine which has an HDMI monitor and which has sound coming through the monitor via HDMI just fine when playing music from Amarok and login system sounds play fine too. I had selected the appropriate hdmi channel in kmix for all the available audio playback devices. Also I can get sound