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Auteur: Marc Shapiro
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Sound recently stopped (SOLVED)
On 12/4/23 22:28, Steve Litt wrote:
> Marc Shapiro via Dng said on Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:18:30 -0800
>
>
>> 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.
> Here's a data piece that might be helpful.
>
> Firefox plays youtube videos on my Void DDD (Daily Driver Desktop). The
> pulseaudio package isn't installed but the following are:
>
> [*] apulse-0.1.13_2
> [*] libpulseaudio-16.1_1
> [*] pulseaudio-devel-16.1_1
> [*] pulseaudio-utils-16.1_1
> [*] pulsemixer-1.5.1_2
> [*] libpulseaudio-32bit-16.1_1
> [*] apulse-dbg-0.1.13_2


I have the following installed.  When I uninstalled pulseaudio, nothing
else was uninstalled, so the remainder of these would still have been
installed when I tried apulse.


ii  apulse:amd64 0.1.13-2                                amd64       
PulseAudio emulation for ALSA
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64
16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                         amd64        PulseAudio client
libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                         amd64       
PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                        
amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  libsox-fmt-pulse:amd64 14.4.2+git20190427-3.5                 
amd64        SoX PulseAudio format I/O library
ii  pulseaudio 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                         amd64       
PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                        
amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

Marc