FC3 and FireFox Sound problem

[bigserpent]

Hi,

I just installed Redhat FC-3 and configured Nagios to monitoting my network.

When Nagios detected problem, the FireFox running on that FC-3 machine can't play back the alert sound.

I have tried IE and FireFox on the Windows XP platform, I can hear the alert sound without problem.

I did tried the sound-setting on the KDE and I can hear the sound without problem.

I tried the KDE browser (Konqueror) and having same problem.

Here are the output of the lsmod, could you tell me what is the problem?

[root@mrtg1 etc]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 32865 2
snd_ac97_codec 67105 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47861 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 92233 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 28357 1 snd_pcm
snd 52261 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9889 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9541 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

[10Dedfish]

First of all, welcome!!
Now,
Ive never really messed with Firefox before, but something that you can check is that the permissions between Firefox and your soundcard/program allow the other to access and/or use it.

10dedfish

[shebang]

Hi,
It seems that you are using Alsa. I'd recommend running, "alsamixer" as root and turning up all the volume.

HTH..
Shebang

[bigserpent]

Hi Dread Pirate Roberts/ Shebang

The SE linux part of the FC-3 is disabled, I did tried to logon as root to run the FireFox and having the same problem.

I did set everything to max. in the mixer. When I open a new terminal window, the KDE generated some event audio. But the FireFox can't
playback the wav file.

I just tried to open a local wav file by the FireFox, it can't playback the wav file and I noted that, when I browsing the Nagios page. The FireFox asking to install a plug-in. I need something to lets FireFox play the wav file?

[shebang]

For the wav file, I think you might need something like realplayer.

Also, try:

aplay /usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/test.wav and see if you get a "doink" from the speakers.

In alsamixer, all the settings can be high but they have to be turned on. If it says:
Master [off] <-- Then that's the problem. < or > toggle the on/off buttons.

[bigserpent]

Hi Shebang,

The "aplay" can play back the wav file very well. I have added "WAV" into the FireFox's Download file types and open with "aplay".
After that, the FireFox can playback the WAV file when I specified the URL "http://192.168.210.36/nagios/media/warning.wav".

But I still no audio alert with the Nagios. When browsing my Nagios page. The FireFox asks for Plugins installation to display the media. But no suitable plugins were found.........

I have checked the page source and found how the Nagios generates the warning audio alert.

<EMBED SRC='/nagios/media/warning.wav' HIDDEN=TRUE AUTOSTART=TRUE>

If I specified the URL "http://192.168.210.36/nagios/media/warning.wav", then I can playback the WAV file. Why the FireFox can playback the WAV file with "EMBED SRC=............" ?

[shebang]

Hi - Maybe you need realplayer ? Glad aplay helps. I don't really know a lot about Nagios. I'm thinking that you need realplayer but beyond that I am not sure what exactly might be the problem.

[Tyr_7BE]

Try installing "mplayer-mozilla" or "mozilla-mplayer" (not certain which it is). You might have to track down a repository that has these packages along with all the dependencies. The mplayer plugin for mozilla-based browsers allows them to play pretty much any media format under the sun.

[bigserpent]

Hi Tyr_7BE,
Thanks for your information. I have installed the "mozplugger" this afternoon and fixed the problem.

The FireFox, Mozilla needs additional programs (plugins) to playback the media in the webpage.

Thanks,

[10Dedfish]

Shebang,
Just so I know, How could you tell that he was using alsa by looking at the lsmod output?

10dedfish