[SLL] Toshiba Satellite plays music from CD, but only rarely from Internet, under Ubuntu Dapper

[Aaron E. Klemm]

The Flash player is likely the culprit. You can google for the problem
and read all the gory details, but it has to do with Flash hogging the
audio device and Ubuntu's using ESD. I've tried several fixes such as
changing FIREFOX_DSP="auto" in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc to
FIREFOX_DSP="aoss", but with little luck.

Anyone know why Ubuntu doesn't use alsa? Seems all this audio worked
great for me under Gentoo. Also, maybe a fix is imminent in the upcoming
Flash 9 player for Linux.

ak


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:16:00PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Say, I tried this with a friend tonight and we got this consistently.  
> It would not play music, nor video from the Internet, but it played off 
> a CD just fine.  Oddly, yesterday for the first time at work it played 
> music off the Internet using epiphany browser, but when I got it home it 
> wouldn't repeat the miracle and it has refused to do so since.  Can 
> anyone make a suggestion?
> 
> Sincerely, Xeno
> xc
> 
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