karmic: No sound from flash

[Azure]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

I recently switched to Karmic Koala and now, when I try to play a flash video, I receive no sound.

In addition, I receive many error messages, scrolling fast as the eye can see:

ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 7 09:32:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.16-generic
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic x86_64

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

I get this in my log as well, it might be important:

ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c:2700:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib ../../../src/pcm/pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

[Bipolar (bipolar)]

I have this issue as well. I've tried both the flashplugin-installer package, and the 64bit plugin directly from adobe. Both have no sound output at all. Sounds from the rest of the system work. I'm running up-to-date Karmic.

[Bipolar (bipolar)]

I found the issue to my problem. It was simply that the PCM output volume was turned all the way down. I guess the other apps use just the master volume. I found this by running 'alsamixer'. I'm getting sound out of flash again. Perhaps there is a way to set the PCM volume to a normal level on install?

[smerz (daniel-genis)]

I have this issue as well.

Up to date 64bit karmic (Alpha 5).

No flash sound but all other apps have normal sound output.

[Azure (azure-umich)]

Removing PulseAudio solved this problem. I can have sound playing in flash concurrent with anything else using sound and it all works fine.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

can everyone please give the output to the following commands:
lsb_release -a
apt-cache polivy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash

[Radu Cristian Fotescu (beranger)]

This is *not* an 64-bit issue.

This is *not* even a flashplugin-nonfree issue.

On Kubuntu Karmic 32-bit, I have:
--- *no* sound in Flash!
--- *no* sound in VLC!
--- full sound in Kaffeine.
--- full sound in KDE.

It's definitely an ALSA issue and/or a PulseAudio issue. I've tried with VLC (which is easier to configure) with everything:Auto, ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, and NOTHING!

The same to Flash: no sound. But I can't expect sound in Flash as long as I can't get sound in VLC!

Strange thing, KDE4 and LDE4-apps (Kaffeine) do have sound, with or without PulseAudio installed.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

radu you are not the original reporter your bug can be different

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

changed to package from reporters output.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Also the reporter filed it under flash noone changed that. now it is changed

[Radu Cristian Fotescu (beranger)]

Oops! Not my bug anymore: after the latest updates, the sound works in my case in all the applications, with either PulseAudio or ALSA.

[Barış Ürüm (barisurum-gmail)]

I confirm this situation continues after the pulseaudio 0.9.16test7 to 0.9.16-0ubuntu1 update.

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

I have same problem with flash in Kubuntu 9.10. I just upgrade from 9.04.

[dasdsadsada (dasdasdas-deactivatedaccount)]

Information you asked for:

retry@retry-laptop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

retry@retry-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Įdiegta: (nėra)
  Kandidatas: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Versijų lentelė:
     10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
flashplugin-installer:
  Įdiegta: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Kandidatas: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Versijų lentelė:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
swfdec-mozilla:
  Įdiegta: (nėra)
  Kandidatas: 0.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Versijų lentelė:
     0.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
gnash:
  Įdiegta: (nėra)
  Kandidatas: 0.8.5-0ubuntu3
  Versijų lentelė:
     0.8.5-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

[smerz (daniel-genis)]

When i encoutered this issue I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 Alpha 4 (or 5).

I downgraded again to 9.04.

Now I upgraded to 9.10 beta and all works fine.

[dasdsadsada (dasdasdas-deactivatedaccount)]

Yea, It seems to be fixed in beta.

[Luke Hoersten (lukehoersten)]

flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Luke Hoersten (lukehoersten)]

I am still having the problem in Karmic. Another maybe unrelated issue is it seems my mouse can hover over flash apps just fine but then it's unable to process clicks. For example, youtube. Please let me know if you need any more information from me.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Luke Hoersten <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am still having the problem in Karmic. Another maybe unrelated issue
> is it seems my mouse can hover over flash apps just fine but then it's
> unable to process clicks. For example, youtube. Please let me know if
> you need any more information from me.

What arch? If you're using 32-bit, try purging flashplugin-installer
and using adobe-flashplugin from the Canonical partner repository.

[Luke Hoersten (lukehoersten)]

64bit. adobe-flashplugin isn't available to me as far as I know.

[Stefan T. (stefan-ubuntu)]

@Radu Cristian Fotescu

"On Kubuntu Karmic 32-bit, I have:
--- *no* sound in Flash!
--- *no* sound in VLC!
--- full sound in Kaffeine.
--- full sound in KDE.

It's definitely an ALSA issue and/or a PulseAudio issue. I've tried with VLC (which is easier to configure) with everything:Auto, ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, and NOTHING!

The same to Flash: no sound. But I can't expect sound in Flash as long as I can't get sound in VLC!

Strange thing, KDE4 and LDE4-apps (Kaffeine) do have sound, with or without PulseAudio installed."

I had this problem too, after clean install of K.K.K.

Solution:
Use Synaptic and install other pulseaudio packages. One of them is not installed and that is why it's not working.

[Luis Carlos Cobo (luiscarlos)]

I had this problem and it was fixed following comment #21 (replacing flashplugin-installer/flashplugin-nonfree by adobe-flashplugin). As many people upgrading from Jaunty could have this problem, it would be good to set up a transitional flashplugin-installer update that depends on adobe-flashplugin or some other way to notify users on the upgrade that they should use this new package.

[Pykler (hnassrat)]

It might have something with KDE, im running Karmic, fresh install with Kubuntu, I only have libpuls0 installed no other pulse libs. That maybe due to me having old hardware (its integrated VIA 8237 card).

[PaJoe (flhtcu)]

I also have the no sound problem using the karmis beta release, switching to gnome desktop and flash works well

joe@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
joe@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
swfdec-mozilla:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
gnash:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.8.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

[Pykler (hnassrat)]

Excuse me, any developers looking into this issue. I would like to see sound working when Karmic Kubuntu is released. I am skipping out on all those cool utube vids.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Not a KDE issue.

[Pykler (hnassrat)]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Jonathan Thomas
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Not a KDE issue.
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Invalid

From what I can see all the people having the bug are running KDE. not
only that one person installed gnome and sound just worked? I am not
saying anything, but do you see another reason? perhaps it will help
me get sound working as I do not want to install gnome and rather wait
for sound to start working again (again i.e. it used to work fine in
jaunty on the same machine, also KDE only).

--
Hatem Nassrat

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

All I know is that KDE does not stand in between Flash and Alsa (or pulseaudio/alsa) in any way shape or form. Alsa is also reporting an error in the original report.

[corck (corck)]

same problem here. Kubuntu 9.10 no sound in flash.

[Pykler (hnassrat)]

OK here is the beef. My issue sort of works. I think this is
a pulseaudio + alsa. So my default sound card under alsa was
my videocard (for some reason).

to test if this is the same sisue for you, run:

    alsamixer

and check that the soundcard that shows up is the one you
want (to exit hit escape).

To modify your default alsacard check http://alsa.opensrc.org/FAQ026.

So basically sound in all of firefox wasn't working not just
flash (try opening some podcast or somin). In any case I no
longer have this issue, and I am accpting this hack, sorry
for ditchin the rest fo you.

[Pykler (hnassrat)]

I guess sound worked normally in KDE cause it doesn't use alsa or wraps it in some other stuff (phonon i guess)

[AnthonyC (capone)]

I have no sound from Firefox running GNOME. If I reboot my machine, then everything is ok.

Here is my output while the sound is not working..

anthony@anthony-netbook-ubuntu-NBR:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

anthony@anthony-netbook-ubuntu-NBR:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch karmic/multiverse Packages
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch karmic/multiverse Packages
swfdec-mozilla:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch karmic/universe Packages
gnash:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.8.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.switch.ch karmic/universe Packages

going to try to install the adobe flash from the software center.

[AnthonyC (capone)]

Looks like the only flash I have is the one from Adobe, checked the package manager. Then checked alsamixer, and everything looks good to me. Nothing muted, or turned down.

Any other ideas?

[Kevron Rees (tripzero)]

just upraded my GNOME desktop. No sound in flash. I only have adobe-flash from adobe's website.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please attach the output from 'amixer'.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@tripzero Make sure you're using a PA-compatible version/installation
of Flash. This means the native 64-bit alpha refresh from Adobe if
you're on amd64. This means adobe-flashplugin from Canonical's partner
repository if you're on i386.

In other words, try purging flashplugin-installer and using the
appropriate package mentioned above.

[Saleel Velankar (sealv)]

I am having this bug. Interestingly its affecting only my desktop computer, but not my laptop. I installed flash from the medibuntu repos, for both machines.

I do not know if this is relevant, but both computer popped up a kde dialog window asking me whether it was okay for kde to permanently forget some audio things that began with "Intel..."

What can I report/ give more info on, to kill this bug/find a workaround.

[Saleel Velankar (sealv)]

...And I think I fixed whatever was wrong. I installed flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound, as this was previously uninstalled. I restarted firefox, and sound is back. This is on Karmic Kubuntu, with the flash being installed from the medibuntu repos (using this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683).

...flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package was installed though synaptic, but I doubt that has anything to do with this.

[mbellido (manubellido)]

I don't know if it will work for you but it did for me. In alsamixer a had PCM to 0, I just put it to 100 and sound works with flash....

[manfreed (manfreed)]

I had this problem, but putting PCM to 100 in alsamixer helped!

[Jeff (jbg144)]

I had the same problem with an Intel sound card.
Reinstalled flash as in comment #21--no change
Installed extrasound package as in #41--no change
Installed pulseaudio from the repositories--BINGO...sound works perfectly from Flash!

[Katy Levinson (katylevinson)]

Misc Information: Running Gnome (somebody was suspecting this was a KDE problem), 64 bit kernel, upgraded install from 9.04

Information requested:

user@machine:~$lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

user@machine:~$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
swfdec-mozilla:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.8.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
gnash:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.8.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

user@machine:~$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 42 [66%] [-22.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 252 [99%] [0.60dB]
  Front Right: Playback 252 [99%] [0.60dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 2
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 2
  Front Left: 0 [0%]
  Front Right: 0 [0%]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 1 [3%] [-13.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 1 [3%] [-13.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 1 [3%] [-13.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 1 [3%] [-13.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 12
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-24.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: ...

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@Katy You'll probably have better luck purging flashplugin-installer
and just using the native 64-bit plugin from labs.adobe.com

[kustodian (kustodian)]

I just installed Kubuntu 9.10 and I have the same issue. No sound in Firefox/flash, but I had no sound in Audacious, too. In Audacious I fixed it by selecting another playback device (since I have a USB head set), so I thought that was the problem. I never used Pulseaudio on Kubuntu and it got installed when I updated. Since GTK apps use Pulseaudio I installed PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) in which you can select a default device, selected my sound card and that fixed my problem.

Removing pulse audio all together fixed it, too. I never used it before, I don't see a reason to use it now. To remove pulse audio just type:
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-udev pulseaudio-module-zeroconf

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@kustodian Make sure you have all ALSA apps configured to use
'default' not 'hw' or 'plughw'.

[Mike (triple-eh)]

Recently installed Karmic Koala and was surprised that Flash audio stopped working.

Try "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound", it worked for me. Please share your results.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Installing pavucontrol and unmuting the volume per #47 worked for me.

[silvertuna (silvertuna)]

Mike, I got this -

************@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
[sudo] password for *************:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
************@ubuntu:~$

[silvertuna (silvertuna)]

None of the solutions above restored my flash sound. I have tried many suggestions in the ubuntu 64-bit and other forums to no avail - either i get no sound, or Firefox crashes, the video window is blank or flash fails to install. However, my pulseaudio output volume meter appears to be active, the bars jump, but no sound actually comes out. The other odd thing is i have flash sound through my TV speakers when i connect my latptop via HDMI. Can anyone else confirm that their flash plays in HDMI but not in their built-in laptop speakers? And does that offer a clue as to what to look for?

Karmic 64-bit nVidia Firefox

[Azure (azure-umich)]

At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:15 -0000,
silvertuna wrote:
>
> None of the solutions above restored my flash sound. I have tried many
> suggestions in the ubuntu 64-bit and other forums to no avail - either i
> get no sound, or Firefox crashes, the video window is blank or flash
> fails to install. However, my pulseaudio output volume meter appears to
> be active, the bars jump, but no sound actually comes out. The other
> odd thing is i have flash sound through my TV speakers when i connect my
> latptop via HDMI. Can anyone else confirm that their flash plays in
> HDMI but not in their built-in laptop speakers? And does that offer a
> clue as to what to look for?
>
> Karmic 64-bit nVidia Firefox

I got rid of the problem by uninstalling PulseAudio, it made
everything work right and fixed some non-flash problems I thought were
application bugs.

[silvertuna (silvertuna)]

When i removed pulseaudio, still had no flash sound. I will try it again. Anything to watch out for? What sound program should i use to replace it?

[Azure (azure-umich)]

At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:18:16 -0000,
silvertuna wrote:
>
> When i removed pulseaudio, still had no flash sound. I will try it
> again. Anything to watch out for? What sound program should i use to
> replace it?

I just had everything go through ALSA and it worked perfectly. I
suspect this particular problem is a result of Pulse wanting the sound
card exclusively and the 32-bit libraries Flash relies on trying to
access it through ALSA. I could be wrong, however.

[cornbread (corn13read)]

this was a permissions issue for me. removing .adobe and .macromedia folders from my home directory fixed this issue.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

No. The 32-bit library, if installed via flashplugin-installer, uses
nspluginwrapper, which causes problems. If you're on a 64-bit install, you
may want to purge flashplugin-installer and nspluginwrapper and just use the
native 64-bit alpha plugin from Adobe.

On Nov 11, 2009 2:51 PM, "Azure" <email address hidden> wrote:

At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:18:16 -0000,

silvertuna wrote: > > When i removed pulseaudio, still had no flash sound. I
will try it > again. ...
I just had everything go through ALSA and it worked perfectly. I
suspect this particular problem is a result of Pulse wanting the sound
card exclusively and the 32-bit libraries Flash relies on trying to
access it through ALSA. I could be wrong, however.

-- karmic: No sound from flash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396558 You
received this bug notifi...

[daemacles (daemacles)]

I also have this problem of no sound with ALSA. It worked under pulse, but pulse caused issues with wine, so pulse got the boot. Are suggestions to use the 64 bit version coming from developers? If so, why is a broken version the default one supplied in the repos at all? Is there a configuration file to tell flash which audio system to use?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:05 AM, daemacles <email address hidden> wrote:
> I also have this problem of no sound with ALSA.  It worked under pulse,
> but pulse caused issues with wine, so pulse got the boot.  Are

Use the Winepulse branch compiled in Neil's PPA -- it isn't a PA bug.

[cccccccc (cccccccc)]

I have KKoala, 64 bit, and no sound in Flash too. I am not interested in removing pulseaudio.
Guys, pls stop telling here, it works with the trick in alsamixer - this drives me crazy (really funny). Lets pretend, we all know how to put volume level to 100%.

[cccccccc (cccccccc)]

Ouuuu solved, touch this: new pulseaudio (20):

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ppa

Click at "Technical details about this PPA" and install pulseaudio for update. this works for me - after restart (not just pulse restart).

I still have lots of 5.1 surround problem with pulseaudio, but at least, flash has sound.
I hope HTML5 will kick a.s to flash ASAP.

[Antonio Navarro (anavarrog)]

Same problem for me, solved removing pulse audio:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-*

and restart. I recovered sound in flash and vlc.

[Mariano Iglesias (mgiglesias)]

Comment 42 is what did it for me:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/396558/comments/42

Running:

$ alsamixer

I had:

Card: HDA Intel
Chip: VIA ID 4441

Master at 100
PCM at 0.

Putting PCM up to 100 solved the issue, and sound is working on Flash with no problems.

Here's my LSB_RELEASE & APT_CACHE output in case someone is wondering:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10.0.32.18ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages

[Leo Milano (lmilano)]

I also added the ppa from Daniel Chen and upgraded to the latest Pulse audio, and that fixed my problem. Before doing that, non-kde apps would not get sound in Karmic. Actually, they did for a while (using Pulse audio), a few days later it broke, then I tried alsa-oss, and that worked up until two days ago, when a kernel upgrade just killed non-kde audio. Neither pulse nor alsa-oss would work. However, the ppa packages did the trick.

Many thanks do Daniel for all the fantastic work!

[positron (den-varieme)]

I tried all possible solutions mentioned above. Nothing solvet my problem yet.

I am using Karmic 32 bit (Gnome) and i have this strange issue : i have sound on Firefox plugin and at vlc. The point is that i can hear sound only from the application i first start. if i open first vlc i hear the sound from vlc and no sound from firefox and the opposite.

I removed the pulse, change the plugins , reinstall the plugins, of course the PCM is not muted.
Every help appreceated...

[Thegreenman (thegreenman-us)]

I'm having this problem as well clean install of Kubuntu 9.10 32 bit. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the flash plugins several times to no avail. I have audio in everything except flash.

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

Recent updates completely trashed all support for Nvidia cards. This lead me to install a shiny new ATI video card and do a completely fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10. I applied all updates. I have no sound from flash, but used to have sound when I had the Nvidia card. I can play MP3 files just fine in Armock.

Here is the output you requested:

roland@logikaldesktop1:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
roland@logikaldesktop1:~$ apt-cache polivy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer swfdec-mozilla gnash
E: Invalid operation polivy

uninstalling and re-installing flash hasn't fixed anything.

I'm tempted to uninstall pulse since that appears to be the root of the problem.

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

Per message 37

roland@logikaldesktop1:/$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
roland@logikaldesktop1:/$

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

I solved this problem. Simply uninstall Pulse audio and life is good.

I do not know if the problem in pulse has to do with my using the VGA not the HDMI port on the ATI card, or the fact that my built in motherboard sound was nVidia. I simply know that nothing using pulse worked. Remove pulse and life is good! I can now complete the Eclipse tutorials.

[Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan)]

I had the same problem as described by Bipolar above: the PCM volume in alsamixer was shown as set to zero. Turned it up and I had flash audio in Firefox.

[Johan Frick (johan-frick)]

removing pulseaudio worked for me as well. I recently upgraded from jaunty to karmic. Flash did not work in jaunty either.
Thanks for the workaround.

[Gastón Fournier (gastonfournier)]

#49 from Mike worked for me:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
I have Ubuntu 9.10 32-bits

[glarbl_blarbl (glarblblarbl)]

#47 worked for me, had to install pavucontrol first.
Kubuntu 9.10 32bit, using hda-intel plus hda-nvidia (hdmi out).

[Joe Edmonds (joee)]

Every time I tried to view a flash video in google chrome on my eeepc 1000, no audio would play and chrome would spin (100% CPU) until I quit it. This fixed it. Thanks!

  sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

[gambit (gambit)]

Karmic 64 Bit with Nvidia audio card.

Removing all pulseaudio and its modules, restarting firefox and all goes well. thanks for the advice.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Does this happen in newer Ubuntu versions because Karmic is end- of- life?

[smerz (daniel-genis)]

I think it was fixed in Karmic back then. I cannot even recall the details anymore.

I suggest you close this bug.