Hi Oleksandr, On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:21:36 -0400 oleksandr korneta <atenrok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > on 07/25/2006 05:54 PM Andre Costa wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:44:02 -0400 > > oleksandr korneta <atenrok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> on 07/23/2006 01:26 PM Andre Costa wrote: > >> > >> > >>> http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-linux-dapper/ > >>> > >>> Is there anything similar for Fedora? Would I have this problem > >>> if I used the RPM? > >> AFAIK fedora does not ship alsa-oss since fc4. I have the same > >> issue though. > > > > Mmmh... that (Firefox being unable to play sounds if other app is > > accessing /dev/something) is very annoying. Can someone confirm > > this is really due to the lack of some package (eg. alsa-oss) or to > > Firefox being misconfigured on Fedora? I'd really like to solve > > this issue, because, after all, if Ubuntu folks managed to solve > > it, I can't see why we wouldn't be able to do it on Fedora as well. > as far as I understand, this is not firefox's issue, but macromedia > flash plugin does not support alsa output only oss. Sure, I know this is Macromedia's fault. The thing is that, until they solve this, it would be interesting if Fedora users could workarond this limitation, as Ubuntu users can. > There is a thread in archives of this mail list where fedora guys are > explaining why the refuse to support alsa-oss. I found this one: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00619.html And also this one, which could end this thread =) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00617.html So, if what Ignacio says is true, alsa-oss shouldn't be needed. I sent him a message asking for some help, let's see what comes out of it. If anyone else can offer some guidance, please speak up =) > I use to ask this > question concerning skype, but it is not a problem for me anymore > because skype 1.3 can do alsa, and more than that - I'm not using > skype anymore :) =) According to Adobe's "official Linux blog" (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html) Flash9 for Linux will be based on ALSA. I hope it doesn't take too long to come out... Regards, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
