[clue-tech] almost there - firefox and flash on gentoo amd64

[Matt Thompson]

The heavens stretched forth and Dave Price decreed the following on or 
about 09/15/2006 12:29 PM:
> I really am almost there.
> 
> I took the easy way, per the gentoo howtoo's and used the
> mozilla-firefox-bin (32-bit) and the netscape flash player.
> 
> I can play flash, but have no sound....
> 
> I am using alsa, which works fine with aplay, esdplay, mpd, mplayer
> ...  In fact the alsa on this box will even play more than one input
> at a time ... but no flash ausio and no error messages.

Sometimes if you have this problem, it helps to start firefox with aoss 
(usually by altering the exec line in the firefox start script).

Of course, that's dependent on you not trying this and having aoss.

Matt

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