flash sound through esound

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Michael Collette" <metrol.net at gmail.com> (Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:30:45 -0700):

> For the record, just installing the linux esound does not just make it
> work.  Here are some of the steps that do get it to work though.
> 
> The flash player looks for a couple of things for sound support. One
> is /tmp/.esd/socket. This must be created on the X server.
> 
> mkdir /tmp/.esd
> touch /tmp/.esd/socket

The esd should create this on its own. You should investigate why it
doesn't.

> The other thing flash is looking for is libesd.so.1. The linux-esound
> library also looks for libesd.so.0. This must be created on the X
> server as well.
> 
> cd /usr/local/lib
> ln -s libesd.so.2 libesd.so.0
> ln -s libesddsp.so.2 libesddsp.so.0
> ln -s libesd.so.2 libesd.so.1
> ln -s libesddsp.so.2 libesddsp.so.0

Creating such links for the linux part in the FreeBSD path is wrong. Be
prepared to shoot in your foot in the future if you keep them.

> cd /compat/linux/usr/lib
> ln -s libesd.so.0.2.36 libesd.so.1
> ln -s libesd.so.0.2.36 libesd.so.2
> ln -s libesddsp.so.0.2.36 libesddsp.so.1
> ln -s libesddsp.so.0.2.36 libesddsp.so.2

Creating links for different lib versions brings you into trouble. You
need to find a linux esound which provides the right libs (in this case
libesd.so.1, as you want to run flash which depends upon it).

> After all that, linux-firefox properly recognizes the ESPEAKER
> environment variable, and sound is directed through it automatically.
> 
> Perhaps either the flash7 or esound ports need to check for these
> links and create them as needed upon installation?  It'd just be nice
> to have it work out of the box so to speak.

No, the right fix is different from what you suggest, see above.

Bye,
Alexander.

> On 6/6/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Michael Collette <metrol.net at gmail.com> (from Tue, 5 Jun 2007
> > 09:04:51 -0700):
> >
> > > I ran across a thread talking about this a little while back, but
> > > there was a lack of details as to how it was done.
> > >
> > > I'm running linux-firefox with the flash7 port on a remote X terminal.
> > > That part is working quite nicely.  I'm finding that my best bet for
> > > network audio at this point is esound.  Seems to be the widest
> > > supported daemon.  I'm trying to route the flash audio through it.
> > >
> > > How do I get linux flash7 to route it's audio to esound properly?
> >
> > You have to install the linux version of esd and run linux-firefox
> > within the linux version of esddsp (or how it is called). This may
> > result in the behavior you want.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Alexander.
> >
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