Zero sound from firefox

[Steven Pasternak]

John Wendel wrote:
> Steven Pasternak wrote:
>> Hi! I installed the latest firefox from mozilla in ~/firefox and have 
>> all of the plugins installed (realplayer, flash, mplayer), but I 
>> can't get any sound from it. If I go to a site that uses a flash 
>> movie with sound (purevolume.com), or even the real plugin 
>> (rhapsody.com, weather.com), I can't get any sound even if it says it 
>> does. I have everything on in the volume controller; nothing is 
>> muted. I even tried using root, with a fresh ~/.mozilla and I STILL 
>> get nothing. Is it mozilla.com's firefox or something deeper? Thanks!
>> -Steven
>>
>
> I once broke the sound in Firefox and Flash by building a system that 
> didn't have the ALSA OSS emulation modules. Been doing any kernel builds?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
Sorry I replied once already, but I just found that all of the sound 
from firefox works great under icewm (self compiled), so gnome must be 
running some crap that isn't allowing access to the sound system. What 
could it be?
-Steven