adobe flash player

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:09 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:55 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >   
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:21 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Craig White wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 08:57 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> wm wrote:
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>>>> core 9 plays pic but not sound,latest  release
> >>>>>>>               
> >>>>>> I'm having the same problem on x86_64.  Did yours just start or did you 
> >>>>>> just try it like me?
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> ----
> >>>>> Knute...this has been covered at least 50 times on list
> >>>>>
> >>>>> yum install libflashsupport.i386 libflashsupport.x86_64
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Craig
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>> That's fine Craig but I have both installed and I still don't have any 
> >>>> audio when playing flash.
> >>>>         
> >>> ----
> >>> then check your mixer volume controls because libflashsupport is the
> >>> missing link between flash plugin and alsa/pulseaudio
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> The volume controls look fine and gecko-mediaplayer works fine.  I don't 
> >> think pulseaudio is running, at least there is no pulseaudio listed when 
> >> I type ps -e.
> >>     
> > ----
> > it should launch automatically when you log in...perhaps you need to log
> > out and log in again or just try to manually launch it...
> >
> > /usr/bin/pulseaudio -D
> >   
> I would give up if I were you. If pulseaudio installs and runs its fine. 
> If it doesn't work first time there are too many poorly documented 
> possible reasons why. On one of my own machines I eventually got it 
> working, but there were several things to fix before it did - not one 
> problem, but several. For example, the only NetworkManager package that 
> would start on this machine was the one from rawhide (this may have been 
> fixed in the updates by now). I tinkered several times, sorting out one 
> problem after another, and finally it runs. There were multiple buggy 
> packages, and multiple configuration issues.
> 
> I have another machine where pulseaudio just installed and ran OK. I 
> have another, with multiple sounds cards, where I still haven't managed 
> to make it work, and I've lost the will to try.
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I don't know what to say because I've got a bunch of machines,
definitely different hardware and none of them have failed to work
(pulseaudio). Maybe I'm just lucky.

Craig