Enabling sound

[Daniel Carrera]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> A music CD played just fine this morning, through both the laptop's 
> speakers and the earphones, so I strongly suspect user (on my part) 
> error last night. I plead "up well past bedtime" as my excuse. ;-)

:-)

> However, I don't get sound out of any websites, using Firefox 1.5.0.4 as 
> shipped with Ubuntu 6.06. Not that I know a good website to use for 
> testing sound; I normally have sound muted on any machine I use.

Well that's firefox. To be honest, I've had trouble getting sound to 
work on Firefox too, and if anyone has a solution I'd be interested to 
hear it. The only pages I've managed to get sound on are the ones with 
Flash sound. On that topic, here are some interesting videos to test 
Firefox flash with: :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4209601446239649192&q=retro+enca
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2247981513707357753&q=retro+enca
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5125780462773187994&q=retro+enca
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7717675522522374428&q=retro+enca

Btw, does Flash work on Firefox for you?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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