Bug 62575 (suse47575)

Summary:	firefox should use ALSA for sound output
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Wolfgang Rosenauer <stark>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	crrodriguez, gnome-bugs, sbrabec
Version:	Alpha 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	63894

Description Wolfgang Rosenauer 2004-10-24 18:59:33 UTC

mozilla/firefox should use artsd if it is running and esd otherwise.
They can't share artsd if running under KDE and built as GTK2 applications.
@kde-maintainers, would you like to integrate this? If not please assign back to me.

widget/src/gtk2/nsSound.cpp should be the target.
widget/src/qt/nsSound.cpp is not ready yet but perhaps it's possible to share that?

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-03-17 20:12:05 UTC

*** Bug 63894 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2005-08-13 11:04:54 UTC

is this still an issue? we use alsa dmix now anyway.

Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2005-08-23 16:28:52 UTC

we're trying to get rid of artsd. reopen if you still think we should use 
artsd for mozilla.

Comment 4 Adrian Schröter 2005-08-23 19:01:37 UTC

yes, but this does only work, when the apps are using alsa and not OSS 
(/dev/dsp). Does firefox use alsa ?

Comment 5 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-08-23 19:40:20 UTC

Firefox is using libesd:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/widget/src/gtk2/nsSound.cpp

Comment 6 Adrian Schröter 2005-08-24 06:41:51 UTC

and does esound use alsa by default ? Stanislav ?  
  
anyway, we do not need any daemon support anymore, a direct alsa output would  
be the best solution (less code, less dependencies, full featured). Does alsa  
support exist in firefox code ?  
 
(I did not found the account of Stanislav ...)

Comment 7 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-08-24 07:44:32 UTC

No alsa code in Firefox yet. Maybe we could implement it.
gnome-maintainers: What is the future for GNOME/GTK2 and sound output?

Comment 8 JP Rosevear 2005-08-24 12:10:28 UTC

Mewer versions of esound default to alsa (including the one in 10.0).  The main
mozilla related issue is the flash plugin, which we could preload libaoss for
(we also need to do this for real player).

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2005-11-16 15:44:37 UTC

Put it in the feature database to be tracked there: http://keeper.suse.de:8080/webfate/match/id?value=300327

Comment 10 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-29 06:34:31 UTC

reopen again

Comment 11 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-29 06:42:29 UTC

changing subject for this enhancement for my tracking.
The AOSS stuff is in bug #117079

Comment 12 Stanislav Brabec 2006-09-04 10:12:02 UTC

Yes, esound uses ALSA for a long time.

Comment 13 Mark Gordon 2007-11-02 14:16:59 UTC

Two issues here:
1) firefox should use alsa, which it has for a long time now, via esd.
2) aoss for flash, which is fixed in another bug.

(the original artsd option appears to be obsolete)

Since I don't see any outstanding issues, I'd say this seems to have been FIXED.