No sound in flash. Sound working otherwise.

Hey all, suilenroc here. With the recent advent of some high-quality Creative Drivers for my X-Fi card, I've been able to enjoy some great audio from my Exaile media player. However, sound from flash in firefox is still not forthcoming. Does anyone know how to fix this? And does anyone know how to install flash-10? For some reason, I just can't figure out how to uninstall flash 9 and install the latest version.
Thanks! -suilenroc

Okay, let's switch this up. Suilenroc's brother here. For the sake of convenience, just call me Suilenroc.
So I've been using Linux for about a year now, I used to use Gentoo and moved to Arch. My bro got a creative X-Fi card a while back when we was on windows, and now switched full time to Linux because of the new sound drivers. What I just can't figure out though, if how to get the sound working on his firefox installation. I don't know whether it's a firefox issue or a flash issue, specifically.
I've install the x-fi drivers, and am using ALSA for them, obviously. My brother doesn't know which VERSION of Arch he's using, x86 or x86_64, but it is, most definitely, arch.
Now, I don't, myself, remember the pacman command for installing flash 10 either, and I can't seem to find it via google. From what my brother told me, he installed nspluginwrapper and nspluginwrapper-flash, and linked it to his firefox by following a tutorial. This got flash VIDEO to work, but the audio is not being output through the x-fi card or the x-fi drivers.
Sorry for the earlier posts, I'll be taking over on this issue from here. (I've told the little guy to not get me involved unless he absolutely cannot figure the problem out himself. Well, now's one of those times. Thanks for bearing with him earlier, you can deal with me now. I know a bit more than he does when it comes to Linux.)
Last edited by suilenroc (2008-11-17 00:26:19)

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