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Graphical Environments, Managers, Multimedia & Desktop questions.
genunix
Posts: 2 Joined: 2017-01-31 03:06
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by genunix » 2017-01-31 03:21
I have been running stretch for about a month or so and it seems great. No real issues at all other than a few bumps in the road dealing with VMware WorkStation but otherwise it "just works"(tm). However running FireFox downloaded from Mozilla ( Firefox 51.0.1 build 20170125094131 ) runs very well with the exception that YouTube has no audio to speak of. VLC runs great and the dual monitor setup with my HD Radeon works fine and even the touchscreen works. All very cool. No audio with YouTube and searching around seems to point to pulseaudio problems. However ... there is no pulseaudio here. Also the alsamixer shows reasonable settings and /proc/asound/cards says :
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stretch$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xb0000000 irq 19
1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xb0700000 irq 27
stretch$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k4.8.0-2-amd64.
Well this all gets to be a mystery pretty quick at this point and while VLC works fine there is never audio from Firefox.
Any insights would be great.
genunix.
Segfault
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by Segfault » 2017-01-31 03:31
I think Firefox comes with PA configured only. You need to recompile it by yourself to use bare ALSA.
genunix
Posts: 2 Joined: 2017-01-31 03:06
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by genunix » 2017-01-31 14:41
Great .. so there is no way around this other than to build Firefox from sources. Not the worst answer I could expect but if the Mozilla people are in love with pulseaudio there is little else to do here.
pylkko
Posts: 1802 Joined: 2014-11-06 19:02
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by pylkko » 2017-02-02 09:29
I am not sure, maybe some one else can verify, but the Firefox in Debian is compiled already to work without pulseuadio, I think.
Then you could use firefox ESR from repo, or mix repos from sid (maybe not safe) or systemd-nspawn the firefox from sid/exp
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=129390
Head_on_a_Stick
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by Head_on_a_Stick » 2017-02-02 09:37
I'm posting this from Firefox version 51.0, the sound works fine and I have no trace of PulseAudio on my system
However...
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Puffy: ~ $ uname -a
OpenBSD Puffy.lan 6.0 GENERIC.MP#158 amd64
Is this another Poettering thing?
Both my stretch systems have PA already installed, I will try to remove it from one of them later and report back...
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dibl
Posts: 528 Joined: 2009-10-13 19:50
Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA
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by dibl » 2017-02-02 10:21
The firefox package in sid plays youtube videos perfectly. Also I noticed that there is no pulseaudio package in sid any more.
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root@hp-350g:/# uname -a
Linux hp-350g 4.9.6-towo.2-siduction-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT siduction 4.9-12 (2017-01-31) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@hp-350g:/# apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 51.0-1
Candidate: 51.0-1
Version table:
*** 51.0-1 500
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@hp-350g:/# apt policy phonon
phonon:
Installed: 4:4.9.0-4
Candidate: 4:4.9.0-4
Version table:
*** 4:4.9.0-4 500
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Debian sid / siduction KDE
Head_on_a_Stick
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by Head_on_a_Stick » 2017-02-02 11:15
dibl wrote: there is no pulseaudio package in sid any more.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/pulseaudio ?
Sound plays fine with both Firefox (from sid) and firefox-esr in my stretch-based system with no pulseaudio installed:
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empty@Helium:~$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio firefox firefox-esr
pulseaudio:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 10.0-1
Version table:
10.0-1 500
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
firefox:
Installed: 51.0-1
Candidate: 51.0-1
Version table:
*** 51.0-1 100
100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
firefox-esr:
Installed: 45.7.0esr-1
Candidate: 45.7.0esr-1
Version table:
*** 45.7.0esr-1 500
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Anyway, stretch will be using version 52 of firefox-esr so we should wait until that is out.
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dibl
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Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA
#9
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by dibl » 2017-02-02 21:06
Mehhhh -- I must have misspelled it in apt -- I got "package not found", but spelled correctly, there it is!
Debian sid / siduction KDE