Flash player sound solution

[Andre Albsmeier]

On Sun, 13-Mar-2005 at 17:12:43 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 06:50:01PM +0000, Chris Hodgins wrote:
> > Scott Robbins wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >There are a few pages out there that will crash FreeBSD native firefox
> > >with linuxpluginwrapper, at least.   The problem doesn't occur in Linux,
> > >and most of the time, these sites will work with FreeBSD's linux-opera
> > >(and the linuxpluginwrapper).
> > >
> > >
> > >http://www.tvguide.com 
> > >http://www.espn.com 
> > >
> > >are two examples that always crash it for me, and apparently for most
> > >poeple on BSD forums.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Interesting.  Both of those sites hang but don't crash as such.  Wierd.
> 
> 
> Chris, and others, I apologize, hang is what they do and I shouldn't
> have loosely used the word "crash."
> 
> What happens is (again, judging from some threads on freebsdforums, to
> everyone who tries ) is that if one opens the site, it'll begin to load
> and finally freeze, to the point, at least on my machine, where the only
> way to stop it is to find the PID and kill it.  

What happens if you (temporarely) remove /dev/dsp and try again?
You will get no sound but I assume firefox won't hang anymore...

	-Andre

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