After an upgrade I had no sound in any flash movies. I had installed flashplugin-nonfree and screwed around with my sound settings, but no dice. Here’s what I finally did to fix it:
sudo killall pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload
Open System -> Preferences -> Sound and set everything to ALSA.
Open Volume Control preferences and set the volume for all the channels accordingly.
What a pain in the arse!
UPDATE:
Like others have said, since this doesn’t persist after a logout/reboot, I still have to reload alsa (but no longer kill pulseaudio) on each login. Bummer.
Thanks man, after searching all over the web and installing and reinstalling flash 10 and 9, I came to your site and it fixed my problem.
hmmm i’ll take that back… now i get no sound when i play my mp3′s. then i logged out and get no sound on flash or playing music….
Bummer, I didn’t try logging out and logging back in. I’m guessing that pulseaudio needs to be disabled on login. I’ll try and look it up.
Tony, from the pulseaudio ubuntu wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio):
“If you decide you no longer like PulseAudio and would like to disable it: Remove the added lines to /etc/asound.conf If /etc/asound.conf did not exist when you installed PulseAudio, you may remove /etc/asound.conf entirely.
After this, you may remove all of the installed PulseAudio packages.
To disable pulseaudio in hardy you need to select alsa for for all options in /system/preferences/sound”
I had removed my asound.conf file in an earlier attempt at fixing this. I’m thinking if you do the same, it may fix the issue.
thanks bryan…. removing pulseAudio did the trick… hey I went to IIT too, but I didn’t graduate from there…. awesome school.
Hooray! This fixed my flash sound. Thanks!
Glad it helped Steve
gracias, por fin escucho musica en grooveshark y escucho los videos de youtube, además de mi coleccion de mp3.
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Dude your awesome.
Thanks Levi, I’ve got my moments
tengo el Firefox+Windows XP… como puedo solucionar los problemas con el audio?
muchas gracias
Thanks! finally something that worked. I was tired of using opera to watch youtube vids.
sitting on an Ubuntu 8.10 live CD, firefox 3.0.3 (like that notorious Polish RAF squadron). when i restart, i have to install flash again. takes a few tries. then it plays for a bit, then the sound just stops. goes on vacay, one way ticket to CR. somewhere between killing pulseaudio, force-reloading alsa, setting all the sound settings to alsa, restarting firefox, and with a few volume control application quits… IT’S AAAAAAAALLLLLLIIIIIIIVEEEEEEEE…!!!!!!!1!1!!11e1even!!1!
thanks. now i can listen to KCRW and CBC in the kitchen again, w00t!