Author: Marc Shapiro Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Sound recently stopped (SOLVED)
On 12/4/23 16:24, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 04:18:30PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>> On 12/4/23 14:31, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 12:11:01PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 01:22:31PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>>>>> My sound has recently stopped functioning. This seems to be all sound,
>>>>> Youtube on Firefox and Xine are both silent.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Pulseaudio.
>>>> For diagnostic purposes, you could try removing pulseaudio,
>>>> and seeing if you can get output from your soundcard using
>>>> ALSA.
>>>>
>>>> Depending on your use habits, you might be able to manage
>>>> comfortably without PA at all.
>>>>
>>>> AAUI, the main benefit of PA is centralized volume controls.
>>>> For decades the default ALSA device has performed software
>>>> mixing of multiple streams.
>>> Also, I had experiences recently that Firefox completely
>>> captured the sound device while producing no sound, I had to kill and restart
>>> FF to restore sound. Or delete and restore an individual
>>> tab where the process had captured the soundcard.
>>> The FF plugin Switch to Audible Tab can be helpful.
>> The problem was not with pulseaudio, but with alsa. The playback volume was
>> set to 0, which is why it was disabled in pulseaudio.
>>
>> I have a related question, however. Does sound on Firefox now work without
>> pulseaudio. Years ago, I went with pulseaudio because Firefox switched to
>> requiring it for sound output. If that is no longer the case, then
>> eliminating pulseaudio becomes a really viable option.
> It works fine if you run it via "apulse firefox". I.e., install apulse
> and the edit the firefox startup scripts (or add scriting as needed).
Is there any configuration needed for apulse. I tried it once before,
and it did not work. I just tried again. I uninstalled pulseaudio and
verified that firefox had no sound. Then, with apulse installed I ran
'apulse firefox', but there was still no sound (at the same site as
before). I had to reinstall pulseaudio to get sound in firefox.