[arch-general] Firefox and ALSA - Blocks other applications from using ALSA
Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 3.5, every time I pause my music in mpd I can't start it again so long as firefox is still running. I have to kill firefox (literally kill; I tell it to quit, but the process never dies, so I have to kill it by hand) to be able to play music again. Sometimes I'd have this happen if I had a flash video with sound open or something in earlier versions, but now it happens even if I don't have any pages with flash open. Any idea how I should get around this? -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Samuel
Baldwin
Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 3.5, every time I pause my music in mpd I can't start it again so long as firefox is still running. I have to kill firefox (literally kill; I tell it to quit, but the process never dies, so I have to kill it by hand) to be able to play music again. Sometimes I'd have this happen if I had a flash video with sound open or something in earlier versions, but now it happens even if I don't have any pages with flash open.
If you haven't yet, try disabling all snd-*-oss alsa modules. This made a major improvement for me. Also, thought I should mention that Gmail does indeed use flash for some of its features. It may be loading flash without you realizing it. Cheers, Mike
2009/8/7 Mike Shade
If you haven't yet, try disabling all snd-*-oss alsa modules. This made a major improvement for me.
I'll try this; although modprobe -r claims snd_mixer_oss is still in use. Removing alsa-oss with pacman and restarting alsa didn't do anything different, hmph.
Also, thought I should mention that Gmail does indeed use flash for some of its features. It may be loading flash without you realizing it.
Sneaky and disappointing. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
I'll try this; although modprobe -r claims snd_mixer_oss is still in use. Removing alsa-oss with pacman and restarting alsa didn't do anything different, hmph.
I successfully removed all snd-*-oss alsa modules to no avail. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
If you haven't yet, try disabling all snd-*-oss alsa modules. This made a major improvement for me.
I'll try this; although modprobe -r claims snd_mixer_oss is still in use. Removing alsa-oss with pacman and restarting alsa didn't do anything different, hmph.
alsa-oss is a kernel driver, removing the package doesn't do anything except to remove the aoss hack
Also, thought I should mention that Gmail does indeed use flash for some of its features. It may be loading flash without you realizing it.
yeah for the sound notification feature in the chat widget .. flashblock FTW -- damjan
2009/8/7 Damjan Georgievski
alsa-oss is a kernel driver, removing the package doesn't do anything except to remove the aoss hack
Ah. Either way the modules are unloaded.
yeah for the sound notification feature in the chat widget .. flashblock FTW
Oh. I keep chat closed, but I should get flashblock installed again anyways. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
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Damjan Georgievski
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Mike Shade
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Samuel Baldwin