-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: >>> After my SUSE 10.3 supplied Firefox began acting up and finally refused >>> to appear at all, I installed a Mozilla-origin Firefox. Now, when I >>> click on any sound on a site, I hear nothing. I am operating under KDE. >>> The volume on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600) is set all the way up. KMIX >>> is on. I had no trouble with this under 10.2. >>> >>> What do I do to fix this? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> djtuchler >> >> >> Curiously, I have the position that if I launch Firefox under KDE in >> 10.2 it segment faults when the sound system is enabled. Under all other >> windows managers it is fine. >> >> My laptop does have a sound hardware which has known issues with Linux >> anyway so I have never explored this in any depth, (and it did give me >> the incentive to explore other windows managers and as a consequence >> found something which suits my usage better than KDE :-) ). >> >> Have you tried with any other window manager? >> > No. Are you using the SUSE-supplied or the Mozilla-supplied Firefox. I > have both installed, but only had problems with the former. >
What I was observing was that there does seem to be something odd in the way that Firefox was interacting with the KDE sound support. (Other applications seem to have no unusual issues). I use the SuSE version. I have a general set of rules about installation of software on SuSE... 1) Check if distro RPM exists, if exists use that... 2) Check if 3rd party SuSE RPM exists, if exists use that... most work but some do not... 3) If it uses a bin or script (Netbeans, funambol), repository based (CPAN, eclipse, firefox, thunderbird plugins), apply with caution... These are usually safe enough but one may get the odd surprise.. 4) Build from source (with checkinstall).... 5) If nothing works throw toys out of pram :-) I would not consider using a 3rd party generic RPM ... too likely to break stuff... and you normally do not have the level control of control on where it should go that is available in 3 and 4 ... i.e. you can isolate it from the main configuration... In this case the machine is known for hardware issues with most distros.. the sound support is erratic, the wireless card has given me truly interesting times between SuSE versions, and the power management is somewhat unreliable.., so this really is a localised problem. BTW It was not originally purchased to run Linux on anyway... You mentioned that Realplayer was the problem in your case .. which for some reason surprises me little.. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHLZvHasN0sSnLmgIRAsN8AKDcr7SLu/pjBU7gZIxL1UtMlWqvQQCeN2t8 qUx6bmvvt5XRCEKtyl4AJFs= =+h0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
