Any progress on FC9 flash sound issue?

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 19 16:29:36 UTC 2008


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have replicated the "no sound" issues with two other machines, which 
> seems to reduce the probability of odd hardware somewhat. I install 
> the latest firefox and seamonkey, add flash from the adobe repository, 
> and go to youtube. It works. Then I go to either mlb.com or cnn.com 
> and try to play a clip there. It works, but no sound. Then I go back 
> to youtube and no sound there, either.
>
> Lots of others asking about sound issues, is there a fix other than 
> rollback? I get the problem on a business site for training video, 
> which is how I found it originally. They would rather not have me give 
> out their URL, but I see it elsewhere.
>
> Related note, the "play" app still works for wav files, and PulseAudio 
> always picks the video capture card, if present, as the output 
> soundcard. Since there is no sound in documented or physically 
> visible, this is a bit of a mystery. Happens with two no-name sound 
> cards and an ATI HDTV-Wonder (all BT based, if that helps). Removing 
> the card doesn't make sound work, tried that.
>
Do you have  libflashsupport  installed ?
It is on the Fedora9 repo




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