Nick Rout wrote: > OK, revision time. AFAIK from this thread: > > 1. there is no problem with the hardware or the alsa driver, as sound, > in general works. > > 2. the problem is in flash video (you mentioned youtube). What we don't > know is which browser you are using, which flash plugin, nor whether > other media works in the browser (eg those requiring mplayerplug-in, > realplayer etc). > > 3. I come back to my earlier comment that my recollection is that the > flash plugin uses OSS, the deprecated predecessor to alsa. Alsa has an > OSS emulation layer and we have established that you have the > appropriate driver installed for that. However i would now check the > permissions on /dev/dsp (and if that is a link to something else then > the permissions on the link's destination. Make sure you are in the > group that owns the device (or if it is a link the link's destination) > [1]. Don't forget that after adding yourself to a group you must log out > and log back in again for it to take effect. > > 4. If you also have the problem in mplayerplug-in, I suggest setting it > to use alsa in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf (set ao=alsa). >
another thing to try - run firefox (if thats your browser) under aoss, like: aoss firefox > >
