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

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:02:59AM -0700, Justin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Ken Restivo<ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:15:47PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> >> 2009/7/11 Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>:
> >> >
> >> > WTF? OK, I just manually put the libflashplayer.so into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins dir then. Re-start Firefox. Flash goo-dads show up in websites now. All is bliss, all is bliss.
> >> >
> >> > Except.
> >> >
> >> > No audio! None at all coming out of the audio card as MySpace music is supposedly playing.
> >> >
> >> What is in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc ?(or firefoxrc )
> >> Here it's:
> >> ICEWEASEL_DSP="aoss"
> >
> >
> > Thanks! Mine was set to "none", apparently a known bug:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404356
> >
> > However, setting it to "aoss" didn't change anything. Still no sound on flash.
> >
> > I haven't been able to find any documentation on this variable or what-all it's possible settings are.
> >
> > I have only one sound card on this machine, so it's not like it's getting sent somewhere else.
> >
> > I am indeed on Lenny.
> >
> > -ken
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> 
> do you have alsa oss emulation running? That is the first thing I
> would check. Also, there if you can get the pulseaudio jack backend
> working, switch the wrapper to padsp and then firefox can route
> through jack.

Sure. Seems like a lightweight wrapper :-)


sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-jack
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gnome-audio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libasyncns0
  libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0
  libpulsecore5 padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal
  pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-audio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libasyncns0
  libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0
  libpulsecore5 padevchooser paman paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter pulseaudio
  pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal
  pulseaudio-module-jack pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
  pulseaudio-utils
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7.5MB later, my problem will be solved, eh?

-ken