[SOLVED] No sound in browser

lracicot · 2013-05-02 04:18:32

Hi everyone!

I recently moved from Ubuntu to Arch (Yeah!). Everything was fine, the installation was quite easy and I found everything I needed with on the official repos and AUR.

I only have one major problem: There is absolutely no sound in my browser (I tried both Firefox and Chromium). The problem is not only with flash, html5 audio does not work either.

The sound works in vlc, xmms2 and everything else, except for the browsers. I tried to figure out the problem for hours, looking in many forums and installing different packages.

I don't know where to go now. I don't really understand how do sound works in Linux and I don't know which information I should give here and where to find it.

Does anyone have an idea ? Which information should I dump here to help ?

Thanks !

Last edited by lracicot (2013-05-04 05:50:15)

Scimmia · 2013-05-02 04:23:15

First things first, check alsamixer and make sure nothing is muted (has MM at the bottom of the bar).

lracicot · 2013-05-02 04:34:13

I only have my microphone muted: http://files.louisracicot.com/snapshot1.png

Edit: I also tried the "Auto-Mute Mode" disabled. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Last edited by lracicot (2013-05-02 04:36:47)

lracicot · 2013-05-03 00:25:06

Ok I solve my problem.

I have two sound card: "Generic" (HDMI) and "Generic_1" (Analog). The "alsa: default" device was set to "Generic".

I only changed the "alsa: default" device to use "Generic_1".

This post really helped my: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121049

oboenerd · 2013-05-03 18:38:43

Glad to hear you figured it out! Please mark this thread as [SOLVED].

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[SOLVED] No sound in browser

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