firefox & flash9 patches

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 08:04:23 Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:52 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> 
> Do you have working sound with your flashsupport patch and flash9 ?
> 
> I've tried both - your pre-build library and to build library myself
> with your patch - same effect, I have a lot of "ALSA" complains on
> output and no actual sound:
> (I am trying on 8-CURRENT)
> 
> ...
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1305:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1305:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ...
> 
> Any hints will be very appreciated.

I have sound in both linux-firefox and native firefox 2. The
libflashsupport installed by the linux-flashplugin9 port already makes
sound work for me.

I have the following linux packages installed:

linux-atk-1.9.1     Accessibility Toolkit, Linux/i386 binary
linux-cairo-1.0.2   Linux cairo binary
linux-expat-1.95.8  Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
linux-firefox-2.0.0.17 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
linux-flashplugin-9.0r124_1 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_7 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig
linux-glib2-2.6.6   Version 2.X Linux/i386 binary port of GLib
linux-gtk2-2.6.10   GTK+ library, version 2.X, Linux binary
linux-hicolor-icon-theme-0.5_1 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop project
linux-jpeg-6b.34    RPM of the JPEG lib
linux-openssl-0.9.7f SSL and crypto library (Linux Version)
linux-pango-1.10.2  Linux pango binary
linux-png-1.2.8_2   RPM of the PNG lib
linux-tiff-3.7.1    TIFF library, Linux/i386 binary
linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5 Xorg libraries, linux binaries
linux_base-fc-4_13  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)

Kernel with Dmitry's linprocfs patch and linprocfs mounted on
/compat/linux/proc

sysctl compat.linux
compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
compat.linux.osname: Linux

That's it for linux-firefox.

For native firefox, you need to install nspluginwrapper and run
"nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" as root.

My patch for libflashsupport improves handling of the sound buffer,
but sound should already work without it.