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

[Damjan Georgievski]

>> 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




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damjan