No sound in Flash, Browser, Totem, etc: SOLVED

English Multimedia
#1

You need to know that these instructions work for anyone who has more than one way to play sound on the computer: For instance, I have a onboard sound card on my motherboard AND an ATI HD Video card that produces HDMI sound.

These are the steps I took, but I recommend that you skip down to step 6 to see if that’s all you need:

  1. download and install codecs-kde.ymp
  2. download and install codecs-gnome.ymp
  3. download and install w32codecs-all.ymp
  4. In Konsole as user (NOT root) pulseaudio -D --start
  5. KDE Menu/Applications/multimedia/volume control/pulseaudio volume control
  6. in Konsole as user (NOT root): cd (to where you have a music file), then mplayer “filename” replacing “filename” with the name of the music file
  7. notice errors about Alsa - This is what I got: [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1325:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No such file or directory
  8. keeping in mind what was described as No such file or directory in the error: in Konsole as user (NOT root): fuser -v /dev/snd/*

I got:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: trekjunky 3202 F… kmix
/dev/snd/controlC1: trekjunky 3202 F… kmix
/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p: trekjunky 8135 F…m firefox
/dev/snd/timer: trekjunky 8135 f… firefox

so I did:
9) in Konsole as root (NOT user): cd /dev/snd then ln -s pcmC0D3p /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

Notice I linked pcmC0D0p to pcmC0D3p

It worked after that.

Good Luck!!!
TrekJunky

#2

Turns out this isn’t a permanent fix. The ln -s command creates a link, but when I rebooted, that link was gone. I need to do some more research to find a permanent fix.

Sorry Folks,
TrekJunky

#3

Workaround, but will fix it permanently:

1)Open Dolphin
2) Navigate to your home directory
3) Right click and choose create new text file
4) Name it fix_flash.sh
5) Open it with Kate
6) copy the text below and paste it into the Kate document making sure that the pcmC0D0p and pcmC0D3p reflect your devices:

#!/bin/sh
cd /dev/snd
ln pcmC0D3p /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
exit

  1. save the kate document

  2. in Konsole as root (NOT user): cp /home/yourname/fix_flash.sh /etc/cron.d/fix_flash.sh

  3. still in Konsole as root, use the lessons of this website to edit a cron job:
    How do I add jobs to cron under Linux or UNIX oses?
    The line I put into my cron job list looks like this:
    @reboot /etc/cron.d/fix_flash.sh
    some key commands when editting cron:
    :quit! will quit without saving
    :w will write your changes to the file
    :quit after :w will exit while saving your changes

  4. reboot and test you browser

  5. if it is not working:
    a) double check your script in the directory /etc/cron.d/ called fix_flash.sh
    b) double check your cron entry with the following:
    i) in Konsole as root (NOT user): cron -l
    it should look like this with your editted line at the bottom:

Enterprise:/home/trekjunky # crontab -l

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.

(/tmp/crontab.XXXXJNQ84b installed on Sat Jun 19 05:45:29 2010)

(Cron version V5.0 – $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)

@reboot /etc/cron.d/fix_flash.sh
Enterprise:/home/trekjunky #

If you need help, feel free to email me at trekjunky@gmail.com. I will respond within 24 hours.

Thanks and goodluck!!!
TrekJunky

#4

I don’t remember how to edit this post, so I am quoting my first entry and changing the quote to what it should be: