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Author: Marc Shapiro
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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
>
>> 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?

Marc