Re: [SLE] SUSE 10.0 Sound problems with Firefox

Basil Chupin wrote:
Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Installer version ? Where is that ? :-)
Good question. Looks like its been done away with and the last one I can see is here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/packages/

dated last December.

I guess they figured out that Linux users were a lot smarter than Windows users and stopped providing the installer version for Linux. The Windows one is still going :-) .
I see ;-)
... and copied it to /home/zly/Programs/Firefox.
I don't know if this is a typo or deliberate and whether this makes a difference to the problem but the name of the extracted directory from the tar.gz file is 'firefox' and not 'Firefox'. With eveything being case sensitive I wonder if the 'F' has anything to do with anything.
Good point.
I've tested with both 'f' and 'F' though.
It seems to use /home/zly/.mozilla/plugins, which is linked to
/usr/lib/browser-plugins, so again, it does use the same versions.
Sorry, but why the "link"? If you copied everything from the /usr/lib directory to the /home plugin directory then there is no need for any links to /usr/lib/browser-plugins.
Thats just it, I did _not_ copy the files, instead I created the symlink.
libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/browser-plugins is a symlink to
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0...etc..., so that should not cause problems.
The default installation for Firefox installs java 1.42 and not 1.5 so you either upgraded to 1.5 or deliberately chose 1.5 during the original install and deselected 1.42.
My mistake, libjavaplugin_oji.so actually links to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.11/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Just to remind you of the original post, Firefox (the RPM version)
actually DOES play sound, when closing down TeamSpeak which only
occupies /dev/dsp0, where as the version from mozilla.org happily uses
/dev/dsp, even when teamspeak is running.
I don't use TeamSpeak (can't even find in on the list of installed or available software) so cannot comment on what it uses but I have just started the tar.gz version of Firefox and also the RPM version as installed by SUSE and both are using /dev/dsp.
I do not think that TeamSpeak is available as RPM, it is just an archive downloaded from goteamspeak.com, and then run the executable.
The settings of the program allows you to select which OSS device it will use (which I've set to /dev/dsp0, full duplex device).
I have no problem running any application that uses /dev/dsp (half duplex), other than RPM version of Firefox.
Cheers.
Right back at ya ;-)

You asked about noscript, and I have never used it.
On the other hand, I have tried the extension called "Mediaplayerconnectivity", which allows you to execute a command for playing video/audio files found on websites.
If I define mplayer for example, in mozilla.org version of Firefox, it will execute mplayer, and play the video with sound.
Same extension, same video, same versions of software, in RPM version of Firefox, mplayer will complain that it can not access my audio device (/dev/dsp), even though it is available if I run mplayer, not started by the extension in Firefox.

I am all lost ;-)

//Sylvester

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