Re: Audio output from firefox

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, manlyphall%manlymail.net@localhost wrote:

> > Sometime recently (in early- to mid-February timeframe), firefox has stopped
> > producing any audio output.  Other audio players (such as
> > multimedia/gmplayer) work fine, so I don't think it is a problem with the
> > kernel or device driver.
> >
> > FWIW, I'm currently using an amd64-7.99.59 kernel (from February 15), with
> > firefox-52.0, but I'm pretty sure the problem also existed with
> > firefox-51.0.1
> >
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> Have you installed pulseaudio? I have worked around pulseaudio before
> and had audio with Firefox. I've had to do something similar with
> Seamonkey. I can't remember which one needed me to create a custom flag.
> But the flag implemented to build without pulseaudio, in the one, was
> the exact way I implemented it in the other.

I have pulseaudio-10.0nb2 installed.

> If you are installing from a precomiled package, then you will have to
> ensure that pulseaudio is configured correctly. This is because the
> default build is dependent on pulseaudio for audio.

All of my packages are built from sources.  And firefox is built with

	PKG_OPTIONS=alsa dbus gtk3 pulseaudio

> If you are using a mixer of some kind, you need to make sure that it is
> addressing pulseaudio for volume adjustments and mute. Sometimes channel
> configurations create issues too. I think pulseaudio would adjust the OS
> audio system volume, but it might be good not to count on that. Meaning
> that you should make sure the OS audio volume and the pulseaudio volume
> are both not muted and increased to an audible level.

I have no clue about how to manipulate the audio/mixer stuff.  It used 
to "just work" (TM) without any manual steps required.


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