[NBLUG/talk] strange sound bug..

Steve Johnson fratm at adnd.com
Wed Jan 20 13:22:53 PST 2010


Ubuntu runs Pulseaudio for sound..  All tho since this looks like a
flash issue, it may be related..


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM, micxz <micxz at micxz.com> wrote:
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> I have very similar issues when trying to view video via flash
> interfaces. Sometimes it will sound like a skipping cd. My issue is
> only resolved when I restart alsasound. At that point all flash
> interfaces look blank then refresh Firefox and it all works again. I'm
> running openSuSE. I wish I could say I knew of a fix. I not really
> sure how to check my version of alsa or to verify  this is the actual
> issue. - Micxz
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> Linux version 2.6.27.29-0.1-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version
> 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP
> 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200
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> Jordan Erickson wrote:
>> /me guesses it has something to do with Adobe Flash...
>>
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>> Steve Johnson wrote:
>>> I am running the latest release of Ubuntu 32bit, I am having this
>>>  strange sound problem.. I first noticed it in FireFox.  Sound
>>> would work fine but after a while it would just stop working,
>>> re-starting Firefox would bring the sound back..  I also
>>> discovered that just closing the FireFox window wasn't good
>>> enough, there was always an orphaned FireFox process I would have
>>> to kill -9 to get rid of..  But once I got rid of all the FF
>>> instances and re-started it, I would get my sound back.. So I
>>> switch to Chrome, wanted to try it out anyways.. Now I am having
>>> the same problem, except I don't get the orphaned process..
>>> Chrome's sound works, but if I leave the browser open to long,
>>> the sound stops working and killing Chrome and re-starting it
>>> brings the sound back.. I did not have this problem on an older
>>> install of Ubuntu..
>>>
>>> Anyone else having this problem? or know of a fix?
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
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