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

[Xeno Campanoli]

The problem here is that ROTW (Rhapsody on the Web) does not need flash 
player to play music alone, and when my sound is out on google video, it 
also is out on ROTW.  So, it looks like to me it's independent of 
flash.  I also noticed tonight that the Satellite gave me flash after 
four boots, which so far seems to be the average:  1 in four boots, that 
it comes up.  Since it does appear to be regular, I'm guessing it's a 
matter of some measure on some device driver not landing right with some 
signal 3 out of four times.  I do have a small sample (less than 20 
boots) but I would guess more variance in success numbers if it was just 
plain intermittent hardware failure.  So, I'm betting something with a 
device driver that doesn't come up correctly because 3/4 of the time 
it's out of range somehow.  Sorry to repeat myself.  If somebody finds 
such a thing, I'd love to see the C code here.  I've always wanted to 
dabble in Device drivers, and I should be able to figure it out with all 
the C coding I've done over the years.

Sincerely,  Xeno
xc

Aaron E. Klemm wrote:
> 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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>> flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud. --Masters of War
>> http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno, xeno at eskimo.com
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-- 
You hide in your mansions, while the young people's blood,
flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud. --Masters of War
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