Sound Conflict Web Site

[Greg Trounson]

Norman Nunn wrote:
> I had been having random success in an effort to play mp3's and cd's 
> with FC3.  I had searched the recent mail list with no luck.  Volume 
> control settings that worked one day, did not the next.  This morning I 
> noticed that when Firefox was not running, that mp3's played fine in 
> xmms but when Firefox was loaded with web sites, mp3's did not play and 
> the sound card warning window appeared.  This did not happen on just any 
> web site but only for Yahoo sites I checked; the Gnome home page and 
> Fedora home pages were not a problem.  I disabled all the plugins, but 
> that did not solve the problem.  Any ideas on this setup issue?
> 

I had a quick look and didn't see anything on the yahoo site that would 
require sound.

I've noticed similar problems in FC2, and assumed that libflashplayer 
was keeping a lock on the sound device.

Which is strange, since my sound card never had a problem playing 
multiple simultaneous sounds under RedHat 9.

Greg