Flash on thin clients.

[Scott J. Henson]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Okay, I have sound working on the Edubuntu thin clients, but web pages 
> with Flash don't give out any sound. Does anyone have a solution for 
> this? Someone said that the problem is that Flash on Linux uses the old 
> sound daemon (OSS) instead of ESD. Can anyone expand on this? If this is 
> the problem, is it possible to get OSS to work on thin clients or to get 
> Flash using ESD? Who should I talk to about this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

Yes, in the esound-clients package there is esddsp.  You 
would have to get firefox(or whatever browser your using) be 
started by esddsp.  It would look something like the following:

esddsp firefox

There used to be a configuration switch to do this, but I 
think its disabled in favor of just letting firefox access 
the oss driver directly and having alsa take care of things 
through emulation.

I just found the old conf switch in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc 
but it comes with a warning you can read there.