Author: Marc Shapiro Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Sound recently stopped (SOLVED)
On 12/4/23 22:32, Steve Litt wrote: > Marc Shapiro via Dng said on Mon, 4 Dec 2023 17:21:01 -0800
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>> 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.
How?
And isn't the purpose of apulse to convince firefox that pulseaudio *is*
running?