Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Firefox...

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:19:50 +0300,
Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:15:40 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlr...@jo...> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:11 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:01:54 -0400
> > > Lee Revell <rlr...@jo...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:12 -0500, Michael Stempf wrote:
> > > > > All,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Twice now I have loaded Alsa drivers on my Suse 10 (64bit) server.
> > > > > After both installations, Firefox begins crashing...continuelsly.  It
> > > > > gets to the point that it is totally unuseable.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled with Yast...no
> > > > > good...uninstalled and downloaded the latest version of Firefox....no
> > > > > good (although it stays up longer - it still crashes). 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Has this ever happened to anyone else before?
> > > > 
> > > > Why do you think ALSA has anything to do with it?
> > > > 
> > > > Lee
> > > > 
> > 
> > > Lee, do you think that one potentially buggy driver (X) can't be influenced
> > > by another potentially buggy driver (ALSA) ?
> > > 
> > > Can't potentially buggy Firefox audio layer depend on potentially buggy ALSA ?
> > > 
> > > I remember my Mozilla crashing with some movie player plugin, for example.
> > 
> > Yes, of course ALSA bugs could cause Firefox to crash, but it's much
> > more likely to be a Firefox bug.
> > 
> > Firefox does not even link against any audio libraries.
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
> > 
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> 
> So, I'd suggest to gather some convincing statistics regarding Firefox <-> ALSA
> crashes (like X crashes per hour without ALSA and Y crashes per hour with ALSA,
> Y is statistically significantly larger than X) and file a bug against Firefox
> first.

The case of the original poster is a bit complicated.  He's using
x86-64, and firefox is likely i386 binary.  And, it's possible that
firefox is started via aoss automatically for flash plugin, depending
on the system.


Takashi