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flashplugin-nonfree package

no sound in firefox or chrome

Asked by roy taylor

after struggling many hours on trying to get the sound to work on ubuntu 10.10, I finally found something that well at least produced sound...OSS. Now here is the problem, while yes I can hear the test sound I do not however hear sound when in Chrome or Firefox. Not sure what info is needed in order to get this going as I am new to Linux in general. It is more annoying then anything as I am dual OS and can always go to Win7 if I want to, but would rather stick to using this for obvious reasons.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you mean in flash apps?

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roy taylor (limitation82) said : 		#2

from what i saw about flash app...i don't believe so...i tested this on youtube and was not able to produce sound. but then again i don't think sound is really working either :/

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roy taylor (limitation82) said : 		#3

I did download this little game that i figured would have sound coming from it and it does. but still it seems that this is only an issue when on chrome and firefox. I think that this might be an issue with adobe flash and maybe some compatibility with the OSS setup I have. But I am not great with code and all to figure out what would need to be done to get this to work.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a; echo; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

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roy taylor (limitation82) said : 		#5

roy@roy-G50VT:~$ uname -a
Linux roy-G50VT 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
roy@roy-G50VT:~$

roy@roy-G50VT:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
roy@roy-G50VT:~$

echo didn't seem to do anything

roy@roy-G50VT:~$ dpkg -l | grep flash
ii flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.10.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

 dpkg -l | grep gnash didn't seem to do anything

dpkg -l | grep swf didn't seem to do anything as well

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Yes, if there is no result, grep simply outputs nothing.

Ok try this:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Does it now work ok?

If not, we can do it my down and dirty way

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