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Author: Bryce C
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Subject: Mozilla and Flash
Nope. fuser /dev/dsp yields nothing and arts/esd aren't running. I've
tried this in the most basic of window managers, TWM, and still
nothing. I'm going in search of Flash 5 or before now. This is really
frustrating.

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:30, Kenny Grimm wrote:
> Bryce,
>
> You wouldn't happen to be using your soundcard while you are visiting
> flash sites? I have had this problem with an on-board soundcard.
> Mozilla would lock up when libflashplayer.so tried to open /dev/dsp
> while I was using xmms. Doing an strace on mozilla may help you to see
> what it is trying to do at the time it locks up...
>
>
> > > >> On 18 Sep 2002 16:45:38 -0700 Bryce C <> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > Ok, I am finally giving up trying to solve this
> > > >> > myself. Why the F#@!
> > > >> > wont the flash plug-in I download from
> > > >> > Macromedia work in Mozilla 1.0 or
> > > >> > 1.1 on mandrake 8.2? Whenever the
> > > >> > libflashplayer.so is in the plug-in
> > > >> > directory, about:plugins shows it as installed
> > > >> > but Mozilla COMPLETELY
> > > >> > locks up when I try to visit a flash site
> > > >> > (http://www.macromedia.com).
> > > >> > Can anyone give some clue as to why this isn't
> > > >> > working and how to fix
> > > >> > it?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > P.S. It worked pre-1.0 and I've tried
> > > >> > re-downloading it since.
> > > >> > P.P.S. Sorry for the coarse language but darn
> > > >> > it, i'm mad.
> > > >> > --
> > > >> > Bryce Chidester
>
>
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