[NBLUG/talk] talk Digest, Vol 70, Issue 18

Steve Johnson fratm at adnd.com
Wed Jan 20 13:53:33 PST 2010


Hi Grant,

According to /etc/lsb-release I am on 9.10 karmic.  and according to
dpkg I am running the adobe version of flash.. I wonder if gnash will
work better..

-Steve


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> I haven't heard of this particular bug before.  I am guessing you are
> using Ubuntu 8.10 Karmic Koala.  You can always verify with `cat
> /etc/lsb-release` to double check.  Narrowing down a bug can be quite
> a patience testing and observation testing process.
>
> If the problem is flash related installing ubuntu-restricted-extras
> will pull in the Adobe version of flash instead of gnash, the open
> source implementation of flash player.  On my machine the package for
> Adobe's flash is "flashplugin-installer" which downloads and installs
> a version to your machine to side step the licensing restrictions that
> Adobe places on their software.  You can see what flash packages are
> on your machine at any time by doing `dpkg -l | egrep -i flash` which
> is a handy command line trick that I find much more useful than any of
> the gui tools.  dpkg gives a list of all installed packages to egrep
> which only passes on the ones where a case insensitive match is found
> for flash.  The output goes to your terminal.
>
> If you want to look for existing bug reports, try using a web browser
> (sound not required) with google and appropriate key words.  I
> recommend using site:launchpad.net to look for officially reported
> bugs or site:ubuntuforums.org to look for other user reports on the
> most popular Ubuntu site.
>
> Regards,
>
> Grant Bowman
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:51:51 -0800
>> From: Steve Johnson <srj at adnd.com>
>> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] strange sound bug..
>>
>> 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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