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dncrash

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 22

changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

Hello!
I recently changed my soundcard to an usb one and everything works fine except the sound of flash videos, in firefox.
Is there any way i can "tell" it to use the new one ?

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

are you using alsa or oss for sound? i believe oss doesnt have usb audio support

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dncrash

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 22

Re: changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

I believe it's alsa but i'm not 100% sure. Is there any way i can check ?

arch_enemy

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From: Ukraine, Mykolayiv

Registered: 2008-06-12

Posts: 18

Re: changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

hello, I have the same problem (except I have usb headset), here my topic - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81994 .I've got there that solution:
add to MODULES in rc.comf  !snd-pcm-oss
this helped me for a while, but when I've done full system upgrade (new release kde4, kernel) - sound again goes away in firefox.

Murray_B

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 134

Re: changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

Well I had similar problems. Sometimes it helps to configure alsa with alsaconf, which seems to work better than the autoconfiguration of other tools. And maybe the problem is not the missing sound, it also could be a mixing problem. Try some youtube-videos when all other apps which could use sound are closed (except of firefox). If you get sound it is a mixing problem which could be solved with enabling dmix explicitly in /etc/asoundrc.

dncrash

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 22

Re: changed soundcard, no sound in firefox

I solved part of the problem by simply removing the old soundcard from its slot. from the warning messages i got, i thought it wasn't working anyway but once physically removed it, my sound is back.
The problem now is, the sound falls behind the video which is very annoying. Also, only the sound in flash works, amarok or the dragon player don't, and i get the same error message i got with the old soundcard: Notification from Phonon: The audio playback device does not work.