[linux-audio-user] Good News / Bad News

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 18:47 +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2006 09:15 schrieb Leonard "paniq" Ritter:
> > flash uses oss directly (/dev/dsp) and needs exclusive access to
> > sound resources. if anything else is running (jack, alsa) it
> > doesn't work.
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:50 -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > > Good News:  muddled through getting Rosegarden set up and
> > > actually producing sound.
> > >
> > > Bad News:  flash sounds (wife loves em) through the browser are
> > > no longer played.
> > >
> > > I know there's a conflict somewhere.
> > >
> > > could one of you point me towards a solution please?
> > >
> > > ubuntu, firefox, konqueror is the target environment.
> 
> I solved this problem by starting firefox through aoss, ie aoss 
> firefox. You can set an alias or something to simplify this.

I'm not sure if this is a Firefox thing or a Ubuntu extension, but you
might be able to set FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc.

Lee