While using firefox to browse flash based sites like google videos, you tube e.tc. no audio was available, though video was perfect. The reason is although firefox uses a daemon libesd, falsh programs directly use the device file /dev/dsp which can be opened only once. Whatever problems that existed with flash and sound was being taken care of by a wrapper script provided by esd. But this was a very inefficient method as outlined in the
bug report.
The workout around or way to fix it, is to use alsa.
First remove esd from the system.
apt-get remove esound esound-clients
Restart firefox and audio should be available now.
If this doesnt fix it, then install also-oss
apt-get install alsa-oss
Ran across this solution
here
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