CentOS - Sep 2005 - Just can't get sound working in Firefox

I have been all up and down my Firefox options, and all up and down
whatever sound card configurations I could find in Gnome. And I just
can't get sound to work. Whether it's a Flash animation, a Quicktime
movie, or anything, they all run, but no sound.

All other applications that run sound, like Xine or XMMS, work fine
(although mysteriously XMMS every now and again loses it's connection to
my sound device.)

When I look on Google for help, every FireFox related page ultimately
says "check your sound configuration" without much more to offer.

I'm totally stumped. I'm not even sure where to look anymore.

Any suggestions?

Dave

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:28 +0900, Dave Gutteridge
wrote:
> I have been all up and down my Firefox options, and all up and down
> whatever sound card configurations I could find in Gnome. And I just
> can't get sound to work. Whether it's a Flash animation, a
Quicktime
> movie, or anything, they all run, but no sound.
> 
> All other applications that run sound, like Xine or XMMS, work fine
> (although mysteriously XMMS every now and again loses it's connection
to
> my sound device.)
> 
> When I look on Google for help, every FireFox related page ultimately
> says "check your sound configuration" without much more to offer.
> 
> I'm totally stumped. I'm not even sure where to look anymore.
> 
> Any suggestions?
Save the following as ~/.asoundrc and kill all apps using sound:

http://fedora.ivazquez.net/files/Em-asoundrc

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://centos.ivazquez.net/

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> 
> Save the following as ~/.asoundrc and kill all apps using sound:
Holy smoke, that worked like a charm! Worked so well in fact that I'm
kind of stunned.

What the heck happened? What was that magical file? Why was it not there
before and how was it so obvious that was the problem?

I'm keen to learn!

Dave