flashplugin-nonfree and libflashsupport on desktop installs

[Kai Schroeder]

Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as discussed several times now on IRC, there is a problem on the 
> desktop using flashplugin-nonfree and sounddevices others then the 
> default.
>
> Reproducable:
>
> 1. gnome-sound-settings and select e.g. your headset as default output 
> device
> 2. start firefox and go to youtube
> 3. select a video and try to get some sounds
> 4. you will hear nothing on your headset, but on the normal sound 
> output (e.g. your onboard card)
>
> to get this running, a dpkg -r --force-all libflashsupport helps a 
> lot...your headset starts to work directly after you restart firefox
>
> question is: do we need libflashsupport for something else? Ogra told 
> me, he uses it for ltsp installations.
> Can we just drop the dependency on libflashsupport on 
> flashplugin-nonfree and push this dependency somewhere inside ltsp ?
>
> regards,
>
> \sh
>
>   
Sounds like this should happen in all applications and not only in 
firefox + flash. The setting in gnome-sound-settings is kind of obsolete 
now and always has to be set to pulseaudio server. You have to select 
your headset as the default device in the pulseaudio devicechooser or 
you can move the stream in the pulseaudio volume manager. You can also 
enable simultaneous output on all soundcards in the pulseaudio 
preferences and select that as your default device - maybe that should 
be the default configuration for Ubuntu?

regards,
Kai Schroeder