Bug 171768

Summary:	mozilla-launcher uses aoss unnecesarrily causing instability
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jon Bramley <brammers>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jon Bramley 2007-03-22 10:42:18 UTC

mozilla-launcher always runs mozilla apps through aoss which causes my flash movies to sometimes lose sound and then stop half way through. I have removed the aoss from the mozilla-launcher and it works much better (since I believe flash9 can use alsa without aoss). I think this would be better controlled by a USE flag, rather than forcing aoss to be used if it exists on the system.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-22 11:12:15 UTC

There's already been a use flag and it was removed because it sucked. If flash sound is broken for you, then you'll need to complain to Adobe, not to Gentoo.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 146108 ***

Comment 2 Jon Bramley 2007-03-22 12:04:04 UTC

But why force apps to run through OSS emulation if they don't need to? Flash 7 I can understand because it couldn't use alsa, Flash 9 can use alsa so the oss emulation is not required. Its nothing to do with Adobe particularly, just that I prefer firefox running proplery with Alsa, rather than using OSS emulation, and the only way I can achieve that is to edit the mozilla-launcher script to remove aoss.