no sound in flash-nonfree plugin via pulseaudio - Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

[Kai Schroeder]

On Hardy / AMD 64 I cannot hear sound in flash videos via pulseaudio in firefox using flashplugin-nonfree. I get the following message (many times) once I start a flash video e.g. on youtube:

ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

that file does not exist. A simple symbolic link from /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so to that location does not work.

[Kai Schroeder (kai-schroeder)]

this bug is probably a duplicate of #180008.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

this is not a duplicate of bug #180008
its about the alsa plugins of pulseaudio missing in /usr/lib32

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

...and therefore is incorrectly assigned to pulseaudio when in fact should be assigned to alsa-plugins.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

Why is this "wishlist"? Flash has become pretty essential to the desktop experience and if pulse audio is not ready to be a replacement for the sound system in Gutsy and Feisty, why is that switch being made? Just because Fedora includes it doesn't make it ready for prime-time.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

BTW, the workaround for this is to kill pulse audio, go into sound preferences, and change your sound from pulse to alsa.

[weboo (hidetaka)]

My hardy x86_64 works fine. Did you install libflashsupport package?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libflashsupport

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

Mine is working now again, too. Looks like the missing file is now installed.

[hackeron (hackeron)]

the libflashsupport package is installed but this still isn't working for me. I also tried this package: http://www.jawsy.org/ubuntu/hardy/libflashsupport_1.9-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb - which didn't help either.

I still don't have anything in /usr/lib32/alsa-lib and still see this error message:

ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

Changing back to confirmed... Not sure why I would have it and others do not, though.

[Matthew Tighe (tighem)]

I'm checking through my downloads now and see I downloaded the 32-bit lib for this. I must have manually installed at some point. It must not have fixed my problem then but it seems to working for me now...

[Kevin Welch (kebinusan)]

Im currently running the latest 8.04 beta and get the same error with wine.

ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so

ia32-libs does not seem to contain this and I am unable to find a package that does. However, my audio does work in flash.

[Jonathan Rogers (jonner)]

This bug (which is a duplicate of #180478) is about flashplugin-nonfree, not Wine. The current fix for getting Flash to use pulseaudio is libflashplugin, which bypasses ALSA's libasound entirely. So, getting Wine and other 32-bit apps linked to libasound to work with pulse (which is something I want too) is a different problem.