no sound from Flash9 plugin

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:49:16 +0000 (GMT)
> From: AN <andy at neu.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> I'm having a problem getting sound to play in Flash9, the video works 
> fine.  I followed the instructions from http://crnl.org/blog/2008/11/01/flash-9-for-freebsd-71 
> and the install completed without problems.
> 
> System info:
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD test.fu.bar 8.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31 
> UTC 2009     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> amd64
> 
> Gnome 2.26.3
> 
> firefox-3.5.3,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> linux-flashplugin-9.0r246 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
> linux-f10-atk-1.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary (Linux 
> Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0 Vector graphics library Cairo (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-expat-2.0.1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library 
> (Linux
> linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0 An XML-based font configuration API for X 
> Windows (Linux Fe
> linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7 GTK+ library, version 2.X (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-jpeg-6b   RPM of the JPEG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g The OpenSSL toolkit (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-pango-1.22.3 The pango library (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-png-1.2.37 RPM of the PNG lib (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 The TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 Xorg libraries (Linux Fedora 10)
> linux-flashplugin-9.0r246 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
> linux_base-f10-10_2 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode for 
> i386/amd64 (L
> 
> 
> part of dmesg:
> Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 
> 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: The Regents of the University of California. 
> All rights reserved.
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The 
> FreeBSD Foundation.
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31 UTC 
> 2009
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: 
> root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect 
> reduced performance.
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz 
> quality 0
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  @ 
> 2.33GHz (2333.08-MHz K8-class CPU)
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10677 
> Stepping = 7
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: 
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: 
> Features2=0x8e39d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1>
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: TSC: P-state invariant
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: real memory  = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: avail memory = 4104114176 (3913 MB)
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: ACPI APIC Table: <A_M_I_ OEMAPIC >
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 
> 4 CPUs
> Sep 17 10:42:34 test kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
> 
> Sound is working for all system sounds, and multimedia apps like totem. 
> Any help is really appreciated, please let me know if there is more info 
> that I need to provide.
> 
> TIA
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Andy,

This has been a known issue with Flash9 since Adobe fixed a security
problem a couple of months ago. Since Flash does not support the OSS
audio used by FreeBSD, they probably were unaware that they were
breaking the sound.

The only solution I have seen is to install Flash10
(linux-f10-flash10). 

Since linux_base-f10 is the standard Linux emulation for 8.0, I suggest
that you replace all of your linux-* ports with "linux-f10-*" ports. If
you use portupgrade, 'portupgrade -o emulators/linux_base-f10
linux_base'. Use a similar command for all of your linux-* ports. Look
in /usr/ports/UPDATING, you will find a discussion of updating linux to
f10.

Note that users will need to update the nsplugingwrapper plug-ins before
Flash10 will work. I believe that 'nspluginwrapper -u' should do the
trick. (Remember that it must be run by each user while logged into his
or her own account.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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