[pulseaudio-discuss] 64-bit Flash 10 and PulseAudio

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 23/07/09 14:09 did gyre and gimble:
> Anyway, I figured that maybe Iceweasel would print some interesting
> error messages when run from a terminal window. That it did. I got a
> flood of the following error from libasound:
> 
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> 
> So Flash doesn't seem to use the hardware directly after all! Instead,
> it seems to be hardcoded to use dmix. (Hey Adobe, WTF is so hard in
> using the default device??) I added this to ~/.asoundrc:
> 
> pcm.!dmix {
>     type pulse
> }
> 
> And it worked!

That is very interesting!

I've long suspected this may be the case as users have popped up from 
time to time stating that this was causing issues.

I think I'll put this into our standard alsa+pulse config - doubt it 
would do any harm.

Col




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