Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-20 Thread Danny Yee
Alan Cox wrote: > Firefox should be using pulseaudio - do you have various plugins and the > like loaded into it (flash, shlockwave, realplayer etc ?) I have the flash-plugin package from Adobe installed, but no shockwave or realplayer plugins... or maybe I do. Looking at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-20 Thread Alan Cox
> So my problem seems to be that firefox wants to take direct > control of the sound devices, even to the point of stopping > system-config-soundcard. Is it possible to configure Firefox to talk > to pulseaudio? Firefox should be using pulseaudio - do you have various plugins and the like loaded

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-20 Thread Danny Yee
When I left for work yesterday, sound was working. When I came home audio in vlc had stopped working, and (interestingly) system-config-soundcard wasn't working either. lsof on /dev/snd/* showed firefox using /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p (even though it was not playing any audio or video). Quitting firefox

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-18 Thread suvayu ali
2009/7/18 Danny Yee : > > So it looks like pulseaudio is sending its audio stream to the wrong > place, but how can I fix that without padevchooser?  I've checked > that avahi-daemon is running, having read >        http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6990830 I tried installing padevchooser,

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-18 Thread Danny Yee
suvayu ali wrote: > Those apps might come with certain desktop environments, but they can > also be installed separately. Also most of them are graphical > frontends to command line counterparts. So you can try the command > line utilities if you wish. I for example use XFCE and WindowMaker and > u

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-17 Thread suvayu ali
2009/7/17 Danny Yee : > suvayu ali wrote: >> Try this guide. It has been effective for many users so far. >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225660 > > I'm not running GNOME (or KDE, or indeed any desktop) so key bits of > that don't exist for me. > > Is sound not supported for peopl

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-17 Thread Danny Yee
suvayu ali wrote: > Try this guide. It has been effective for many users so far. > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225660 I'm not running GNOME (or KDE, or indeed any desktop) so key bits of that don't exist for me. Is sound not supported for people running plain window managers?

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-16 Thread suvayu ali
2009/7/16 Danny Yee : > Half the people trying to help tell me to remove pulseaudio, the other > half tell me it's the only way to go! > > I've tried reinstalling pulseaudio and rebooting.  I still get sound > from firefox but not from e.g. vlc or amarok. > > I've set vlc to use pulseaudio as outpu

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-16 Thread Danny Yee
I wrote: > I downloaded the 1.20 alsa-drivers, built them, and rebooted. �Sound > worked for a while but then stopped working. �After much frustration I > removed pulseaudio and rebooted. �After that, vlc etc. worked and then > flash video in Firefox worked. �But after viewing f

Re: Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-05 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Danny Yee wrote: > I downloaded the 1.20 alsa-drivers, built them, and rebooted. Sound > worked for a while but then stopped working. After much frustration I > removed pulseaudio and rebooted. After that, vlc etc. worked and then > flash video in Firefox worked

Firefox steals alsa audio

2009-07-04 Thread Danny Yee
I downloaded the 1.20 alsa-drivers, built them, and rebooted. Sound worked for a while but then stopped working. After much frustration I removed pulseaudio and rebooted. After that, vlc etc. worked and then flash video in Firefox worked. But after viewing flash video, sound in vlc stopped work