[SOLVED] Re: Zero sound from firefox

[Steven Pasternak <stevenp500@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
> > Steven Pasternak wrote:
> > > Hi! I installed the latest firefox from mozilla in ~/firefox and 
> > > have all of the plugins installed (realplayer, flash, mplayer), but 
> > > I can't get any sound from it. If I go to a site that uses a flash 
> > > movie with sound (purevolume.com), or even the real plugin 
> > > (rhapsody.com, weather.com), I can't get any sound even if it says 
> > > it does. I have everything on in the volume controller; nothing is 
> > > muted. I even tried using root, with a fresh ~/.mozilla and I STILL 
> > > get nothing. Is it mozilla.com's firefox or something deeper? Thanks!
> > > -Steven
> >
> > I once broke the sound in Firefox and Flash by building a system that 
> > didn't have the ALSA OSS emulation modules. Been doing any kernel 
> > builds?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John
> Sorry I replied once already, but I just found that all of the sound 
> from firefox works great under icewm (self compiled), so gnome must be 
> running some crap that isn't allowing access to the sound system. What 
> could it be?
> -Steven
I feel so stupid. I had rhythmbox on in the background, which caused the 
problem. When I turned it off, firefox had sound. :-[
-Steven