libflashsupport without sound device

[AdamK]

I had a case of missing sound device (kernel module was not loaded). I had no sound devices configured at all.

When I tried to play flash video in Firefox, it just quit, with following message in logs:

*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream. firefox: pcm_pulse.c:115: pulse_stop: Assertion `pcm->stream' failed

[coling]

This is quite timely.... This problem is not restricted to libflashsupport, but rather quite a lot of apps, including artsd via alsa plugin and even paplay.

I'm actually working on a module that will auto-load the null sink when no other sinks are detected such that there always exists a sink. In theory, when the alsa module is loaded or a usb sound device it should be detected by hal and load the alsa sink accordingly, this should cause the auto-loaded null sink to be removed and module-resucue-streams should kick in and move any "playing" streams to the real device....

It's not fully debugged yet but I'm posting about it on the PA ML.

[lennart]

Flash 10 doesn't require libflashsupport anymore, so closing this.

Also, the assert shown above is no longer used in the pa plugin for alsa.