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post #1 of 11
9/19/06 at 11:33pm
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Hi

Well I seem to have encountered yet another strange issue. I've been doing some searches on why there is no sound on "you tube" "google videos" etc... It actualy turns out there was sound, just they were comming out of my laptop speakers instead of my headphones. I find it really odd why it's using my intergrated sound card instead of my pcmcia sound blaster. All my music streams work fine through the dedicated sound card, it's just a problem when viewing videos online. Any ideas as to how to fix this or adjust the macromedia flash settings?

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post #2 of 11
9/20/06 at 6:59am
Flash uses OSS rather than ALSA and is probably pointed at the wrong soundcard via /dev/dsp...can't remember if you can configure the soundcard in the right-click configuration menu you get with flash....
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post #3 of 11
9/20/06 at 7:40am
Or just remove the drivers for your builtin sound card so it doesnt have much of a choice via modprobe -r <driver>

If flash uses OSS make sure you have the ALSA-OSS drivers installed then(You probably do based on it working anyways, most distros dont ship OSS anymore for good reason)

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post #4 of 11
9/20/06 at 8:30am
The distro probably has kernel level OSS emulation as well as the alsa-oss package. The alsa-oss package includes a utility to wrap OSS calls and redirect it to alsa at runtime outside of kernel, while the kernel level support is more low level. There's a way to hook up firefox to use aoss (the util from the alsa-oss package) detailed in this bug https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ree/+bug/29760 which may inadvertently fix your problem.
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post #5 of 11
9/20/06 at 12:23pm
If you can hold off till the end of the year flash 9 will be out and will support alsa. The issue you're talking about and the sync problems should be solved.
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post #6 of 11
9/20/06 at 1:48pm
Hmm Flash9 by end of year? Whered you get that one from BT? Last I heard they were looking at next year.

Also in past I havent been to impressed by the aoss script, if you can I would use the built in ALSA kernel level OSS emulation and see if that works, It did for me I believe just fine, though it has been some time since I ran flash w/ audio on that machine.

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post #7 of 11
9/20/06 at 4:07pm
The linux flash developer guy said there would be a beta before the year is over. I figure a beta of v9 has to be better than the current v7. You are right that the final release is scheduled for sometime in 1st quarter '07.
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post #8 of 11
9/20/06 at 6:39pm
Ahh ok that makes a bit more sense and matches what I had heard as well, as I believe i also heard about a beta, thought you were referring to the full version though.

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post #9 of 11
9/21/06 at 6:25am
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Originally Posted by seablade
Hmm Flash9 by end of year? Whered you get that one from BT? Last I heard they were looking at next year.

Also in past I havent been to impressed by the aoss script, if you can I would use the built in ALSA kernel level OSS emulation and see if that works, It did for me I believe just fine, though it has been some time since I ran flash w/ audio on that machine.

Seablade
That's what I've heard on the Flash 9 release too. The aoss script is very dodgy, the problem is though that Flash is hard coded to use /dev/dsp which it seems in this guys case is the internal sound on his lappy, and unloading modules every time you wanna use flash ain't a great longterm solution.....does Ubuntu come with that alsa configuration util? (alsaconf? something like that) That should allow you to choose a primary sound card and that should then get the /dev/dsp device I think (/dev/dsp defaults to hw:0). Failing that look up the dsp_map module parameter for the snd-pcm-oss module which allows you to set the card and device used for the kernel OSS emulation.
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post #10 of 11
9/21/06 at 7:49am
I don't believe Ubuntu has alsaconf, however unloading the modules and setting them to not load at startup seems like a viable option, but it depends on how the person uses their sound. If they have a pcmcia card, most of the time they will probably want to use that(Which sounds like it is the case) and on occasion they may wish to change cards, a few very simple bash scripts can dot his for you, just run with sudo like normal.

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post #11 of 11
9/27/06 at 5:04pm
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Thanks for all the replies. It seams flash has fixed its self from some automatic update
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