Any progress on FC9 flash sound issue?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:03 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> M A Young wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 May 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > 
> >>>> 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
> >>>
> >> Yes.
> > 
> > If you aren't getting sound from more than just flash, check all the 
> > sliders in the volume control, including the ones not displayed by 
> > default. I had the problem that one of the sliders (possibly Surround) 
> > was muted. Incidentally, if you have x86_64 you need 
> > libflashsupport.i386 as well as x86_64.
> > 
> Question regarding this, if flashsupport is needed, why don't the FC9 or 
> adobe RPMs have it as a dependency?
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Adobe doesn't because the rpms install on a variety of systems (RHEL,
CentOS, etc.) that don't have/offer pulseaudio yet.

Fedora doesn't because they don't supply flash-plugin.rpm

Craig