Gutsy_64 Flash Audio Broken

[Jeff Crawford]

Have a Via VT8237A onboard audio card. I used the upgrade util to go from feisty_64 to gutsy several weeks ago and have lost the sound on upgraded firefox_64 flash non free. I don't think that it ever worked but noticed it shortly after upgrading. All sound on all apps i.e. Totem, mplayer, amarok, system sounds work alright, with reservations. Alsa and Oss are not functioning but switching to ESD or Autodetect modes in any apps gives me sound. Have followed excellent diags on this forum and at ALSA. I have found the following.

Machine sees both my analog and digital VT82xx cards. Module "snd_hda_intel", which is the correct module per ALSA site for this card is installed and running. The change is that this module has apparently been compiled into the kernel with Gutsy?? instead of using ALSA directly? Again apparently this is why ALSA and OSS modules lock up or give a "failed to initialize sound card" reply to me. Again switching to ESD or Autodetect using default drivers gives perfect sound.

I have done a complete removal of both Firefox and the non_free Flash, reboot and reinstall both. Flash video is excellent but no audio.Under feisty i had both the 32 and 64 firefox installed and running perfectly. Feisty Firefox_64 had flash installed with the Ndiswrapper, running well. I did all updates prior to upgrade and neither removed nor changed anything. First indication of problem was in Amarok. The sound was poor and no surround present. The first time I changed to another module in Amarok I found that speaker selection was blanked and ALSA could not initialize the card. Since I started diagnosing problem I have unfortunately added a LOT of unneeded apps. Fortunately none of these harmed my existing sound in any apps but have not fixed the flash problem. I am not sure that this demands a Launchpad write-up? Strange no one else has the problem.

I ran a back trace on firefox and got the following:

firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]

Link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3697295#post3697295

[Sabaki (crbell)]

I'm having this problem too. See bug 153742.

Chuck