No sound from browser

[buncas]

Hello all,

A friend introduced me to Dapper...Installation was a breeze..The only issue that i have is when i try to view news clips or watch sports clips online, i get no sound from the browser. I tried Firefox and Opera...same problem..

Does anyone have a fix for this


Thanks Buncas

[samwyse]

Re: No sound from browser

Try starting them 'aoss opera' or 'aoss firefox'. I'm not sure if it will help or not.

[TheDarkSavant]

Re: No sound from browser

I've had luck closing the browser then typing

killall artsd

in a console window and restarting the browser.

[otisklt]

Re: No sound from browser

I had this same issue... sound fine for system sounds and media players yet no video or flash sounds in a browser.

I tried several things and am not sure if all or part made it work so here goes...

( note you might only need to modify the first one )

open up /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc
and write:
FIREFOX_DSP="none"

open up or create /home/yourusername/.firefoxrc
and write:
FIREFOX_DSP="none"

those seemed to work if nothing else was playing sound or until i started amarok


so i tried this next

With 2.6 kernel (w/ alsa) /dev/dsp and mixer are sym-linked to /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer.

(As root) chmod 666 /dev/sound/*

still seemed the same where it would only work if nothing else was using the sound channels


install extra alsa stuff ( note i have no idea offhand what may have been there to start with and if any I am listing are not really needed ) :

alsa-base
alsa-firmware-loaders
alsa-oss
alsaplayer-alsa
alsaplayer-common
alsaplayer-gtk
alsaplayer-oss
alsa-utils


I think at that point it was still the same so I made another change ( note you might only need to modify the one installed by firefox in the /etc/mozilla... folder )

modify /etc/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefoxrc
and write:
FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"

modify /home/yourusername/.firefoxrc
and write:
FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"


and I now have video and flash sounds in firefox even with amarok or other media players running at the same time
if you want to try these things maybe don't take all the steps I did... I am not sure its all required, I am still learning