[PLUG] Serious sound problem!

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

This one throws the whole concept of linux into serious doubt.... :-)


Here's the problem. My seven year old loves to play Flash games on sites 
like disneychannel, postopia, primarygames. Mozilla's the browser. The 
Flash-for-linux plugin supplied by Macromedia appears to be buggy. I can 
enable sound by executing, from bash

/home/dlentz> artsdp mozilla

but this only works if I'm logged in as root! So here I am, on the 
Internet, browsing major sites, as root. It's only a dial-up ppp 
account, but still...

From what I could gleen from googling, it seems that the Flash plugin 
thinks that the sound server is locked exclusively by another 
application (even though it isn't) if the server has ever, ever, been 
touched by anything else (like xmms).

Does anybody know how to get sound from Flash in Mozilla without being 
logged in as root?



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