Gentoo + Firefox/Opera + Flash + Sound + 24 hours = Fail.
OK HIVE MIND, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE.
I put you last on my list of things i’d do with this blog, but i’m reaching out to you first because i have a problem that is pissing me off *RIGHT NOW*. :-)
Synopsis: I run Firefox 3.0.6 &/or Opera 9.63 on gentoo linux on three desktop workstations (home, work, consulting gig), running 2.6.27-gentoo-r7, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3, and 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 respectively. Flash (version 10.0 r15) audio stops working after firefox has been running for anywhere between 8 and 24 hours.
ALSA enabled without any sound daemons. All latest stable packages available via portage.
For the most part, sound works great - i can run firefox + flash video + mplayer + vlc all at the same time without issue - and often will have some music streaming in via mplayer, and check out a youtube video without a problem.
The problem appears to be somewhere between flash and alsa. After 8-24 hours of running firefox, flash audio ceases to work. Like clockwork, i unlock my desktop after having been away overnight, and click on a flash video link, and the video will play with no sound for about 2 seconds and then stop (apparently hung on a write to the audio subsystem). The only way to get flash audio/video back is to restart firefox via a gentle ‘killall firefox’. Mplayer and other apps continue to play sound without an issue.
As you can see, it doesn’t appear to be kernel version specific. I have run daemons like esd in the past, but found that native alsa worked better (until running into this issue).
What am i missing here? Anyone else having this issue? Anyone know a fix?
HELP!
