64-bit flash no longer produces sound

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/06/11 14:03, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:15 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 10/06/11 01:26, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
>>>> On 06/08/2011 06:19 PM, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
>>>> Does anyone else have these problems? Or did I accidentally configure my system
>>>> broken, in a manner I can't even comprehend? :)
>>> Sorry to reply to NoOp's post, but since I had already purged my own, here goes:
>>>
>>> The resolution was found from pulseaudio's documentation, specifically this [0]
>>> page. Just needed to add pulse as the default driver for alsa. Now everything is
>>> back to normal, as in I can not only hear the sound in flash videos, but also I
>>> can have several audio sources playing at the same time without anyone
>>> disturbing the others.
>>>
>>> Thanks to all who participated!
>>>
>>>
>>> [0]: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications
>> LOL!
>>
>> The only way that *I* can get sound to work is to REMOVE pulseaudio as
>> the default driver for alsa! :-D
> Don't get me started!<chuckles>  Pulse works just dandy ...except for
> Basil. Did you ever install pavucontrol??


I've had pavucontrol coming out of my proverbial, and many other places, 
but when I do manage to get some sound - by playing around with 
alsamixer [*] - I either get sound which fades in and then fades out or 
when the sound actually kicks in it stutters and coughs.

I have read many times your expression of your love affair with 
pulseaudio and have tried to get the SOB to work. But all attempts 
always end up as SNAFU.

Only way to get decent, and consistent, sound on all apps., and in all 
distros I've tried, is to kick pulseaudio up the "ring of confidence".

While I haven't taken out any statistics, I strongly suspect that the 
biggest PITA when it comes to hassles in distros is sound problems 
caused by pulseaudio. (A kernel dev. elsewhere stated to me not to talk 
to him about pulseaudio! :-) .)


[*] alsamixergui - graphical version of alsamixer - will not show all 
the available parameters (you may see 4 but probably only 2) which alsa 
has available for you to play around with if pulseaudio is installed; 
but get rid of pulseaudio and ALL the settings then become visible.


>   That knackers up a lot of
> people because ~~it isn't installed by default~~ and, without that,
> you're hosed. Alsa is talking to pulse and visa versa, but without
> pavucontrol pulse is not configured more than half-assed! Some just get
> lucky without it. So, tossing the baby out with the bath water isn't the
> cure.

No, nobody should have even bothered doing any huffing and puffing and 
grunting and getting a hernia in producing this "baby" to begin with.


> By dang, if you ever got it running correctly,


Ah, now, that is an interesting comment: "if you ever got it 
running........". Oh, I missed the last bit"....correctly". Neat :-) .

Let's move on then.... :-) .


>   you'd love it. You'd
> swear by it. You'd name your next man child "Pulse". If by some MIRACLE,
> I managed to procreate, I would! :) Ric
>
> p/s I gotta make the trip to downunder just to meet all the
> upside-down-people on this list. As the Small Faces said, it would be a
> "mind blast."


Ah, the Small Faces....had a loooooong and illustrious career didn't 
they? :-)

BC

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