Re: How to get browser to produce audio output?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>I've got audiocfg(1) configured to use the hdmi output from my video
>card:

># audiocfg list | grep '^[0-9]:'
>0: [*] audio2 @ hdafg0: NVIDIA product 0051
>1: [ ] audio0 @ uaudio0: USB audio
>2: [ ] audio1 @ uaudio1: USB audio
>3: [ ] audio3 @ hdafg1: ATI R6xx HDMI
>#

>With this I can play mp3 and m4a audio using mpv from pkgsrc, but
>neither firefox nor chromium give me any audio.

>What am I doing wrong?


Nothing, this is supposed to work. You may check the symlinks in /dev.

audioctl -> audioctl2
audio -> audio2
sound -> sound2

These are set by 'audiocfg default 0' (index 0 is audio2 for you), but
maybe something was changed afterwards.