Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/17/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is, if you are using 1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and it works fine. Ah, I see my knowledge of dmix is obsolete. Now I can purge it to make room for something else! :- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google search seems to get me

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Crute
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a

[gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Crute
I seem to be having issues with the netscape-flash plugin. The plugin works for animation but no sound plays. You can get sound if flash is the first thing to get to the ESD daemon but if something else gets there first (amarok or totem) flash will not play sound. I have dmix running on the box