From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RY40O-0000UK-Fl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:00:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D553021C297; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 23:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54E521C278 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE721B4003 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:58:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.997 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.997 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.504, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mb-ZWyYCuSB3 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1971B401A for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RY3xp-0001yA-2t for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:58:17 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-187-213.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.187.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:58:17 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-187-213.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:58:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:00:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-187-213.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111117 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 2fbb64c2-e758-446b-b4a0-c0fcf891d603 X-Archives-Hash: e31d26edd6f00810460c6b55f27575cf 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.