Ubuntu 11.10 Audio Problems with Browsers.

When navigating to the Sound Settings @ Applications, i see that applications don get listed here.

my laptop sound dont work,,it is to work on 11.04 just by changing the sound setting to no amplifier...but in 11.10..it doesnt work..pls help

same here no audio threw browsers but i can download and play it fine.

youtube.shoutcast and so forth

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have audio in Amarok, but no sound in firefox, chromium, reqonk.
I'm using kubuntu 11.10, to which I've upgraded from 11.04 (not a fresh install).
I think the problem comes from flash-plugin (during upgrade, the process gave me an error code 1).
I tried to remove and reinstall flash-plugin-installer and flash-plugin-downloader, but it has not been successful.
I still can see video on sites like youtube, but no way for the moment to hear anything.

There are some complexities in the way this bug is presenting, so let's get a greater depth and breadth of information about your experiences.

@Michel Steinbusch
What package versions of each browser do you have installed? Do you have sound on the web via mechanisms other than Flash, for example with HTML 5. (If you have trouble finding this out, please indicate that, and I'll provide detailed assistance.)

@setiamon
In addition to providing the requested information in bug 874834, please post information about what package versions of each browser you are using here, and please also install the OpenShot video editor, tell us what package version you have for that, and let us know here whether or not you have sound in that. We should figure out of that is a central element of this problem or just a coincidental additional problem that Michel Steinbusch is experiencing.

@Ab3L
What package versions of each browser do you have installed? Please install the OpenShot video editor, tell us what package version you have for that, and let us know here if you get sound in that. As for removing and reinstalling the packages that provide your Flash player plugin, please open a question about that (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+addquestion), then use "Link existing bug" on the question page to link your new question with this bug. Please also subscribe me to the new question. We (or perhaps someone else, if another member of the community is able to respond first) will work on that problem there, and then we can report back relevant information here. Please also let us know if you have sound on the web via mechanisms other than Flash, for example with HTML 5. (If you have trouble finding this out, please indicate that, and I'll provide detailed assistance.)

@Subhankar Biswas
Bug 870907 suggests that you don't have sound **at all**, which would indicate that you are not experiencing this bug (but that it is instead perhaps good that you reported a new bug for your situation). But you did post here, so I want to double check: Do you have sound in any applications? (In addition to having posted bug 870907, you might also be able to get support by posting a question about your problem, which you can do at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+addquestion. If you do this, please make sure to mention your bug report in your question and also to link them together as described above.)

@christalblueangel
Do you think you may be experiencing this bug, or are you (like me) just interested? (Feel free to ignore this question if you wish--since you're not indicated as being affected and you haven't posted, I'll assume it's the latter.)

I have the same problem (affecting both firefox and Chrome) after upgrada to Kubuntu 11.10. I have tried HTML5 video to rule out dependency on Flash Player and, indeed, the video played fine (tested using http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html) but no sound at all. By the way, the sound is working in other applications.

O well, you can fix it by installing the latest BETA Adobe FLash Player, i did it and now for some reason my sound works again.
There is just somewhere a problem with flash sound, and Ubuntu 11.10

Other mechanisms have sound, however to provide more information i need to perform a clean install tommorow and report all problems i encounter detailed.

I will test other mechanisms aswell then.

I just purged pulse,installed oss4 and then i compiled/copied the libflashsupport.so to a bunch of different directories /usr/lib or something,i was half asleep and crazed.eitherway i got sound in all my browsers now (with oss4) so i'm done.

I'm using oss4 becuasse pulse sound quality sucks(static,echo's and distortion) and has been since karmic.oss4 didn't work right off the start i had to compile x64 libflashsupport.so (from the libflashsupport.c in oss4 package) and copy it somewhere,i forget were because i did it exhausted,anyhow got sound now so i'm cool.

@MIchel Steinbusch Using Flash Player BETA did not fix it (actually, I had it already installed, but re-installed it, via Flash-Aid, just in case).
Moreover, as I wrote in my previous message, the absence of sound affects HTML5 pages as well (tested only on Chrome though).

Same problem (no sound) with Flash Player in Konqueror 4.7.1, but HTML5 in Konqueror does have sound ! (FireFox and Chrome still haven't)

Does not happen in other browsers, only firefox including other account. All other sounds work fine. Copy & paste web to terminal says no file or directory.

Hello. I solved my problem with a new fresh clean install (format of "/" but no changes to the "/home" partition).
Now everything works fine.

Hi everybody. I solved the problem unistalling pulseaudio, as I use ALSA. Try to write "killall pulseaudio" in Terminal. If you can hear the sound later, then you know what is causing the problem.

@Mariano Rubio: indeed, removing pulseaudio solved my problem (now I have sound in every application including FireFox, Konqueror and Chrome): thanks a lot !

I fixed it in the following way: Terminal and open alsamixer. After I set "Surround" to 100<>100 everything works.

Removed 11.10 reinstalled 11.04 Sound works.
Thanks to all the people who helped.

I had the same problem after updating from 11.04 to 11.10. I could get Amarok and system sounds working after changing audio output device back to HDA Intel. That didn't help for Firefox (only tested flash), but killall pulseaudio worked. Thanks!

Have same problem:

Sound works in all applications except browsers; firefox & chromium

Sound worked fine in Ubuntu 11.04, but stopped working in browsers following upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10.

kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

"killall pulseaudio" made no difference

"alsamixer" surround set to 00 will not increase marked "shared"

Flash in Firefox on my 64bit Ubuntu installation has no sound, HTML5 and other applications work fine. On my 32bit installation evertyhing works.

Can I help with more information to resolve this issue?

What is remarkable to me is that the sound in my browsers worked fine when I first installed Oneiric on this brand-new laptop, and only stopped working in the last couple days--some recent upgrade must have made a change.

deactivating firefox addons like QuickTime helped in my case. Maybe have a look at this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1861857&page=2

I have installed Google Chrome and Opera for Linux, Firefox for windows under Wine (flashplayer won't install), the beta version of flashplayer 11. But none of it has made the sound work in my browsers.

In Chrome, HTML 5 sound didn't work, but in Firefox it did.

I uninstalled and killed pulseaudio, and that made no difference. If I could install an ALSA mixer without uninstalling a large chunk of the system, I'd do it. I've always been happy with ALSA, and never really understood why pulseaudio came around. Meanwhile, browser audio within Firefox and Chrome works fine on Windows 7, to which I have to boot if I want to watch a video online.

The solution to this problem for me was to delete the "~/.asoundrc" file I had created to get sound to work in a previous Ubuntu version.

Strangely sound works fine now for flash here. Perhaps any update fixed it lately?

I've tried installing OSS--merely made it so the sound system did not work. I have installed firefox, chrome, chromium, epiphany and opera browsers, but none of them have audio with flash. Some have audio on some html5 sites by some don't. I am using a Dell Inspiron mini Duo. I've installed MeeGo in a different partition, and the sound works fine in the browser(Chromium) over there. MeeGo seems to use OSS4 for its sound, rather than ALSA (I think both use pulseaudio).

I had the same bug after an upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04.

Solved by deleting ~/.pulse folder.

(No need to remove pulseaudio)

Same bug happened to me but I found an easy way to resolve it at least for my case: In the sound settings I switch to the "Hardware" tab. There, for me, two devices are shown: "RV710/730" and "Internal Audio". If for "RV710/730" I switch the profile from "HDMI profile" to "Off" (thus disabling the device) everything works fine (reproducible). To me it seems as firefox/flash just takes the first available device it can find no matter what device it is. HTH

My system:
Samsung N720-Auro (Stievo)
Ubuntu 11.10 (Linux 3.0.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 19 19:05:14 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

Installed packages:
firefox 12.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1
flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1

yes I can confirm that this is fixed
I checked that I have 1.0.25 (sudo alsactl -v)
killed all pulseaudio
deleted ~/.pulse* and /tmp/pulse*
started pulseaudio
and it works perfect

[offtop] I've understand another source of crapped sound: f***** proprietary skype:
https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCL-726 checkout this issue
no "tsched=0" + skype not running = html5 youtube works perfect
no "tsched=0" + skype running (even when noone is writing to you) = html5 youtube in chrome has crappy sound
"tsched=0" + skype running (dont forget to disable ALL sound notifications) = html5 youtube works perfect
[/offtop]

3-heiko solution on 2012-05-09 worked for me (I switched off internal audio as I only have HDMI audio connected) and sound was fine.

punchuu's fix 2012-05-09 #30 worked for me, thanks

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

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