[arch-general] Firefox and ALSA - Blocks other applications from using ALSA

[Mike Shade]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Samuel
Baldwin<recursive.forest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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