[mdlug] Fixing sound problem in Firefox

[Carl T. Miller]

Drew wrote:
>      At the meeting I was told that the daemon controlling the sound
> card was most likely the
> culprit in videos not playing sound. So I went looking for it in the
> Services GUI, and can't
> find anything which could be that sound daemon. How do I find exactly
> which one to turn off?

Drew, check out this picture of the various programs available to
process sound in Linux.

<http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/linuxaudio.png>

ESD and aRts are the two most common daemons, so check for them
first.  Next try running ps aux | cut -c66- > my_list.  Remove
everything from the list that you know isn't sound related and
look for names from linuxaudio.png.  If you still don't find it,
you might need to do a Google search for each unknown process.

c