[SOLVED]firefox locking sound

webofunni · 2010-04-03 17:58:36

Hi,

Every time when I play flash videos in firefox, it will lock the sound device like /dev/dsp and sound in all other programes like VLC,Mplayer etc will not work. I have to close firefox to get the sound working in VLC/Mplayer. Is this normal or any solution for this ?

Last edited by webofunni (2010-04-03 18:59:03)

brebs · 2010-04-03 18:40:51

Uninstall libflashsupport, then flash will use ALSA, as it should.

Why do so many Arch users have libflashsupport installed?

Crozepp · 2010-04-03 18:58:02

Are you using pulseaudio?
I had the same problem. I installed "libflashsupport-pulse" from AUR and the problem is gone. Now firefox volume control appears in the gnome-mixer ("gnome-media-pulse" from AUR too) and multiple sounds from different programs is possible. Flash works fine for me.

webofunni · 2010-04-03 18:58:34

brebs,

that fixed it. Thanks :-)

webofunni · 2010-04-03 18:59:58

Crozepp,

No, I am using ALSA

legolas558 · 2010-06-30 10:01:00

I have uninstalled libflashsupport (no stray files left behind) and I am using Adobe's libflashplayer.so, but I still have this problem. I am using ALSA and I don't want to use Pulse.

I have also reported the bug here:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20025

brebs · 2010-06-30 10:27:27

Show some debugging info:

wget -O alsa-info.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
bash alsa-info.sh

Also show:
fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*

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#1 2010-04-03 17:58:36

[SOLVED]firefox locking sound

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Re: [SOLVED]firefox locking sound

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