Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

From: Wim De Smet (kromagg_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/21/04

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    On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> wrote:
    > Hi again. I'm responding to my own post. It wasn't until today, weeks
    > after my original post, that I got more clues as to is going on
    > concerning flash causing Mozilla to freeze on my Debian Sarge system.
    > The problem appears to be with esd. Esd (appears to be ) used by
    > default by gnome and is started--esd -nobeeps--when you log in. This
    > works fine with everything: xmms, xine, etc. The only case in which it
    > doesn't work is when the flash plugin is invoked from a web browser.
    > The animation will soon stop and the browser is toast. I feel
    > fortunate today to discover that if esd is first killed before
    > going to a website running flash, the flash runs fine albeit without
    > sound. If "auto_spawn=0" is changed to "1" in /etc/esound/esd.conf and
    > any esd processes are first killed, going to a flash website will
    > automatically start an esd process and flash will play normally (with
    > sound!) but then nothing else, such as xmms, will work until the flash
    > completes and the esd processes automatically completes (after 5
    > seconds in my case). This kinda defeats the point of esd, doesn't it?
    > Can anyone help me out with what is going on here? As all other
    > audio/video applications I run simultaneously use the inital esd
    > process started by gnome, why can't flash? Should I force gnome to use
    > something other than esd?

    This is, actually, a known problem. Do dpk-reconfigure -plow
    mozilla-browser and you will get an option asking you to choose a
    wrapper for esd. It is explained there that the plugin locks /dev/dsp
    which causes esd to hang. So choose a wrapper here and the problem
    *should* be resolved.

    greets,
    Wim 

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