Re: Flash, but no thunder.

[Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd%2009.salmi.ch@localhost>]

Anders Lindgren --> netbsd-users (2009-08-13 11:40:28 +0200):
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Adam Hoka wrote:
> 
> >Make sure you have these:
> >
> >libflashsupport-pulse-20081219 PulseAudio support for Adobe Flash
> >adobe-flash-plugin-10.0.0.525 Adobe Flash Player Browser plugin
> 
>   Gotcha! Thanks! Works fine now -- *-flash-plugin had sucked in
> libflashsupport sans "-pulse" by default. After replacing it and
> reinstalling the adobe plugin it works great. :)

Having seen the same problem (no sound with native firefox3 and both
ns-flash and adobe-flash-plugin on a NetBSD/i386 5.0 system) I just
installed libflashsupport-pulse and its dependencies, but I don't get
pulseaudio to work.  What steps did you take?  I started hald(8) and
dbus-daemon(8) using the example rc.d scripts, but pulseaudio(1)
complains

$ pulseaudio
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by 
policy.
W: core.c: failed to allocate shared memory pool. Falling back to a normal 
memory pool.
E: core-util.c: Assertion 'pthread_setschedparam(pthread_self(), SCHED_OTHER, 
&sp) == 0' failed at pulsecore/core-util.c:698, function pa_reset_priority(). 
Aborting.
E: module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): 
initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.

and some seconds later exits with

Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.
E: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

(Removing pulseaudio(1)s setuid bit and ktracing it, it seems to loop
over calling AUDIO_GETOOFFS and AUDIO_GETIOFFS ioctls on /dev/sound0.)

When passing it the --start option, pulseaudio(1) doesn't fail as above,
but it just prints

$ pulseaudio --start
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by 
policy.

never returns.

Any hints?


Regards, Jukka

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