For the first time evah, I finally got the Nvidia drivers installed on my machine (I had been using nouveau), and the video is great. Problem is, I’ve lost sound in videos. It’s not an intrinsic sound problem — I can still hear system sounds, and the audio in Second Life (which is the reason I finally broke down and fought with the system to get the video drivers installed) is fine. But when I play Youtube, silence. Anyone have any ideas?
[Update a while later]
It’s not just Youtube — videos in general don’t work (e.g., PJTV).
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, continuing to narrow it down. It’s a Firefox problem. Things are fine in Opera (which I assume means that it’s not an underlying Flash problem).
[Update a few minutes later]
Never mind. I shut down and restarted Firefox, and all seems to be well now…
Pay attention and see if it happens again. I get the same problems on my laptop from time to time. The sound stops (and the videos play at very high rate of speed). Just curious to see if you find a ‘real’ issue and post solution here (other than just reboot).
Thanks.
That sounds like a different problem. This isn’t a Fedora problem, as the post title says. It turned out to be a Firefox problem, and I didn’t have to reboot, I just killed Firefox and restarted it. I often have to do this with Firefox (I have a fantasy that it will be better in Firefox 4, when I upgrade to Fedora 15).
Hmmm…I just did a quick search, and apparently you can get Firefox 4 for Fedora 14, from a private repository. So I’m running it now. We’ll see how it goes…
Rebooting. Is there anything it can’t cure? 🙂
To repeat I did not reboot. I just shut down one application (Firefox) and restarted it. In general, rebooting is nowhere near as useful in Linux as it is for Windows, and it’s something I rarely do (I can go weeks without doing it). Generally, the only time it happens is with a kernel upgrade.