{"id":431,"date":"2011-10-30T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=431"},"modified":"2011-10-30T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:19:44","slug":"fixing-linux-mint-lmde-flash-plugin-sound-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Linux Mint LMDE Flash Plugin sound issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently updated my main Linux machine to <a title=\"Linux Mint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/\">Linux Mint Debian Edition<\/a> (LMDE) because I&#8217;m not happy with Canonical&#8217;s &#8220;unity&#8221; strategy and trying to kill Gnome 2.x outright instead of fixing what&#8217;s wrong with it.<\/p>\n<p>Most stuff worked well out of the box, but somehow the flash plugin could no longer play sounds.<\/p>\n<p>A post on the Linux Mint forums was especially helpful in fixing this issue. As the &#8220;root&#8221; user, issue the following command:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>touch \/etc\/asound.conf<\/pre>\n<p>Then, open the above file in your favourite text editor (mine&#8217;s &#8220;emacs&#8221;) and add the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre>pcm.pulse {\r\n    type pulse\r\n}\r\nctl.pulse {\r\n    type pulse\r\n}\r\npcm.!default {\r\n    type pulse\r\n}\r\nctl.!default {\r\n    type pulse\r\n}<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Save the file and reboot your system and from then on, the flash plugin in Firefox \/ Chrome \/ what have you should be able to play sound again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently updated my main Linux machine to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) because I&#8217;m not happy with Canonical&#8217;s &#8220;unity&#8221; strategy and trying to kill Gnome 2.x outright instead of fixing what&#8217;s wrong with it. Most stuff worked well out of the box, but somehow the flash plugin could no longer play sounds. A post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}