WARNING: Flash might kill all your sound

[Temlakos]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 01:37 +0100, Mark wrote:
>   
>> Hey,
>>
>> i don't know if this is known or not but i recently installed the
>> Flash RPM from the macromedia site [1]. If you install that plugin and
>> than use start a flash animation that uses sound you might kill all
>> the sound on your system. I didn't trace the problem in details but a
>> fix for it is to restart your pc (sad) or just to leave flash out of
>> your linux box.
>>
>> I hope this helps some people.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
>>     
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> I don't know, flash works ok for me but I am probably just dumb and
> lucky I guess.
>
> Noticeably absent from your description is:
> - which version of Fedora you are using
> - which version of Flash Player Plugin you used
> - errors reported on screen, in syslog or dmesg
> - whether you installed libflashsupport (F8)
> - which sound system you are using
> - what the response was from Adobe when you reported the problem
>
> Craig
>
>   
I have, on occasion, lost all sound on my system (emu10k1 with a Boston 
Acoustics 3-D speaker set) for no apparent reason. Perhaps I was running 
into this bug. But my remedy is not to shut down the system--that is 
useless. Instead, I turn on the SD Amplifier Output Jack and 3D 
Controller switches, and sound comes back on. I maintain those switches 
as part of my Volume Control setup.

Temlakos