janet.doe Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 (edited) Hi! I have firefox 1.5 installed on my mandriva 2006 free with kde 3.5 and something is wrong with sounds in firefox. I can hear sounds in javagames when playing but when watching flash movies or playing flash games there is no sound. I have the latest macromedia flashplayer installed and when I go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ it seems that everything is just as it's supposed to be. Any ideas how to solve this? -j.d. Edited December 26, 2005 by janet.doe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 Was the Firefox 1.5 installed after a previous 1.0X installation? If so, you may need to create a fresh profile for the 1.5. firefox -profilemanager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 Also, does this only happen when you have another program that uses sound going? Like XMMS or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted December 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 HI. I did reinstall firefox 1.5 with a new profile after someone told me that the old profile could be the reason of this soundproblem but this did not make any change. It's no matter if there some else programs using soundsystem or not - still can't hear flashsounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 are there any error messages in /var/log/messages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted December 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 There seems not to be any errormessages. I'm not sure but something funny there is, it seems that my system is trying to acces my printer everytime I start firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted December 25, 2005 Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 What happens when you start Firefox entirely from the command-line? What messages does it give? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted December 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2005 Hi again! Hmm... I just remembered that I have two soundcards in my computer... Tried the other one, that I really don't use, just haven't taken it of the computer... And what happens is that I can hear the flash sounds via that card. Maybe if I take that card of my sound problem is gone. Or what do you think? Thanks everyone, I think I just start using my brains again! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted December 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 Feel myself sooooo stupid... Well, the other soundcard is off and all sounds working... Thanks for all of you for help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8kman Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 (edited) I also have the no sound in flash issue. Previously, I had gone into the Configure/KDE/Webbrowsing/Plugins and checked the play sound through aRTs. However, this isn't working properly. Is there anyone who has an Idea? Also, running KDE 3.5.2 (MDE) kernel 2.6.12-18, Firefox 1.5.0.2 and the latest flashplayer (as of 4/20/06 whatever version was available). A possibly related issue - when I hit scan for plugins, I get an error about could not load Netscape Plugins error: The nspluginscan executable cannot be found. Netscape plugins will not be scanned. and the flashplayer plugin is not listed in the KDE control panel. Thanks in advance. **edit: fixed the nsplugins error by installing kdebase-nsplugins package. I now have flashplayer in the window. Now have sound with flash in Konqueror but still no sound in Firefox. I only have one sound card.*** !!Update: I ran harddrake changed the driver to nvidia (have an NFORCE3 board) rebooted and then chose the default driver for my sound card (how this matters, I don't know since the other driver worked for sound like AmaroK, etc.) rebooted and now it seems to be working fine. Why this wouldn't have worked before, I dunno since the default driver is what was loaded before!!! Edited April 24, 2006 by sn8kman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppetto Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 (edited) modify your firefox shortcut like the following: put: aoss firefox or aoss mozilla-firefox You can run those from the command line as well to test before you modify the shortcut. Make sure you have aoss installed. Flash doesn't play well with arts sometimes and you have multiple devises competing for sound playback, so aoss forces sound through alsa Edited April 25, 2006 by guppetto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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