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SlackwareInAZ

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 10

No Sound in Firefox 1.0.6

Have a puzzling problem getting a website with sound to work in Firefox.

Have sound when logging on to desktop using KDE whether root or user. (Added audio group to user)

Have sound using k3b in root and user.

No sound in Firefox on web pages that load with sound when using Slackware. (I'm not sure what type of media file the page loads or what type of plugin I might be missing).

The only plugin I manually install for Firefox is flash, but like I mentioned, these pages work in Slackware 10.1 current.

Alsa daemon is loading fine. Everything else seems fine.

2.6.12.5 kernel with udev and  alsa driver compiled into kernel as modules and alsa-lib, alsa-oss and alsa-utils up to date with pacman.

What am I overlooking??

Thanks,
Gary

sepht

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Registered: 2005-07-07

Posts: 51

Re: No Sound in Firefox 1.0.6

Might be flash, I have problems w/ sound audio in firefox too

dedhart

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Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 123

Re: No Sound in Firefox 1.0.6

This has been posted many times, but I'll help anyways. Put the following script in /usr/bin/firefox

#!/bin/bash

export MOZILLA_LAUNCHER=firefox

aoss /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox "$@"

make it executable and you should be good to go, it does not work well for me, but at least it works.

edit, oops sorry for bumping an age old thread, I was just looking for a better way to fix the firefox sound problem as it seems to work temporarily then quits, I found this script on many other threads that I searched and posted it here without checking date of the posts. I'll try not to do that again.