[LAU] Wine + Firefox + Flash == No Audio with ALSA

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Jul 11 03:10:17 EDT 2009


Rob wrote:
> On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:03:16 am david wrote:
>> Hmmm, I have no such problem with Flash on Debian Lenny. Many times, I
>> have a Flash music video playing in FF, switch it to the background, and
>> continue doing other stuff with the computer without any performance
>> impact at all. Must be a problem with Ubuntu.
> 
> Well, I've no idea what Ken uses (and his problem is pretty different than 
> mine), but I did mention I was using Jaunty specifically.  It still works 
> fine on Hardy (whose Flash is 9.0) and OK on Intrepid, both of which 
> default to earlier versions of Xorg -- as appears to be the case with Lenny 
> since Debian stable goes into feature freeze about what, 6 or 7 years 
> before each release?  So in a couple of years you may run into this 
> problem, in Rocky or Scud or whatever they name it by then.

Debian Etch shifted Sid over to Lenny within the past year, so this is a 
much newer thing than that old Debian Stable ... Whatever, it's running 
Flash 10.

I suppose it could be a problem with Xorg ...

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David
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