Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

[Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable
>> to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance.
>>
>> I remember there was a little trick to make past versions of FF to
>> work with pulse audio (that I use so VirtualBox machines can also
>> play sounds), but can't find what it was.
>>
>
> Hi Francisco.  I can't answer your Firefox question, sorry, but may
> I ask you a question about pulseaudio instead?
>
> There are several of us old atavistic grumps (you know who you are,
> Alan) who can't see any use for pulseaudio and therefore disable it
> with useflags and any other way we can.
>
> For example, I use vbox all the time and have no problem getting
> sound from my vbox guests, or from firefox or any other application.
>
> Sound "just works" without pulseaudio -- so why do I need it?
>
> Sadly, gnome3 has made pulseaudio mandatory if I want to use the
> volume control applet on gnome-panel (and I do) so I now have the
> pulseaudio daemon running in the background, but all of my apps
> are built without the pulseaudio useflag and all produce good
> sound even when I kill the pulseaudio daemon manually.
>
> I still don't get the whole idea behind pulseaudio.
>
>
>
Hi,

How do you manage to get VirtualBox sounds without pulseaudio?  That's the
only point that keeps me from removing it.

Oops!  When did VBox start to use ALSA?  Let me try...

Thank you all!
Francisco

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