Sound in Evolution and Firefox

Fink17 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: Sound in Evolution and Firefox

Hi,

i am trying to get sound in Evolution (2.4.2.1.) and Firefox (1.0.7) working but the two stay silent. I am wondering what to do. Do I have to set something in the preferences? Where can I turn on sound?

I am using both alsa and esd and most of my programs do have sound (mplayer, xmms, gaim). I am using fluxbox 0.9.14. as wm if thats important.

Thanks for help.

djscribble · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 116

Do you already have sound playing somethere else... I did, and what i found that fixes the problem was to edit the firefox script with

Fink17 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

I have dmix running. Gaim is working perfectly fine with it. Evolution is still silent though ...

djscribble · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 116

did the firefox modification work?? if so then you will probably have to create a similar wrapper for evolution that does aoss and "$@"

Fink17 · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject:

No, it did not. Dont know why. I am using aplay for gaim and that is workung