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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Sound recently stopped (SOLVED)
Marc Shapiro via Dng said on Mon, 4 Dec 2023 17:21:01 -0800

>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.


Sounds to me like you need to tell Firefox to use the Alsa driver
instead of the Pulseaudio driver. This is a common thing in things
like vlc, totem, and smplayer. Maybe Firefox too.

SteveT

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