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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:51:26
Message-Id: 200703261145.25794.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound? by Ernie Schroder
1 Not that the state of my box is anything to go by, but this is what I find:
2
3 On Saturday 24 March 2007 02:33, Ernie Schroder wrote:
4
5 > # find / libflashplayer* 2> /dev/null | grep libflashplayer
6 > /home/ernie/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
7 > /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
8 > /home/ernie/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
9 > /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
10 > /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
11
12 Running find as a plain user:
13
14 $ find / libflashplayer* 2> /dev/null | grep libflashplayer
15 /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
16 /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
17
18
19 > # ls -l /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
20 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ernie users 7040080 Mar 23
21 > 22:02 /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
22
23 $ ls -la .mozilla/plugins
24 total 0
25 drwxr-xr-x 2 michael users 112 Jan 8 2006 .
26 drwxr-xr-x 5 michael users 176 May 19 2005 ..
27 lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael users 29 Mar 26 2006
28 gxineplugin.so -> /usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so
29 lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael users 44 Mar 26 2006
30 libnpsoplugin.so -> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libnpsoplugin.so
31
32 There's no libflashplayer there.
33
34 > I have device permissions set up properly unless libflashplayer.so uses
35 > some device I don't know about. /dev/sound/* are all root:audio and "ernie"
36 > is in the audio group. I guess this is obvious because all other audio apps
37 > work fine as "ernie". I've been racking my brain and searching for info,
38 > but I can't get this working. Please, someone help me out here.
39
40 If the above doesn't help I'm afraid I would not know what will.
41
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Mick