[SOLVED] Re: Zero sound from firefox

Steven Pasternak stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Fri Jun 9 01:47:57 UTC 2006


Steven Pasternak wrote:
> 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
>
I feel so stupid. I had rhythmbox on in the background, which caused the 
problem. When I turned it off, firefox had sound. :-[
-Steven




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