Thanks Ken!

Also seems I only have the problem with the firefox-esr from the
devuan distribution - latest firefox from the firefox web site
seems to work OK.

    Julf

On 10/21/24 13:35, Ken Dibble wrote:
> On 10/21/24 05:08, Johan Helsingius via Dng wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>>> I am not able to provide much help, but I have some recollection of
>>> having to use
>>> aplay to override the default firefox audio on an installation of
>>> daedalus, thus accessing
>>> alsa directly.
>>
>> Interesting. How did you do that?
>>
>>> If I recall, and don't bet on it, firefox is built with
>>> support for alsa and pulseaudio,
>>
>> My understanding was that pipewire should support both pulseaudio
>> and alsa interfaces/APIs. I might be wrong.
>
>
> This is what happens when I try to use my memory.  Sorry for the mistake.
>
> It was not aplay but apulse.
>
> Again, if my poor memory works at all, I found this on a arch site.
>
> Reference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283010
>
> Where the firefox audio dependencies were being discussed.
>
> There is another thread somewhere where firefox audio is being discussed,
>
> unfortunately I cannot find it.
>
>
> The method used was to override the firefox desktop entry.
>
> by copying the desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/ and
> modifying the Exec line.
>
> to be
>
> Exec=apulse /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr %u
>
> This method requires the default alsa sound device to be functional.
>
> In this particular instance it was necessary to create an .asoundrc in
> the home directory
>
> for alsa to work properly.
>
>
> Again, if I recall correctly, on this particular machine I was
> attempting to figure out why the audio on
>
> a machine upgraded to daedalus had quit working.  Some of the attempts
> to fix it included the removal of
>
> pulseaudio, the installation of pipewire, and others.
>
> The final diagnosis had to do with the audio device not properly being
> awakened after power saving.
>
>
> Sorry for the mixup, just trying to share as much as possible to help.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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