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Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

[SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Hello there,

the title says it all. When I play videos online, there is no sound, which is presumably related to my last upgrade:

$ pacman -Qi firefox | grep -i "install date"
Install Date    : Mon 19 Jun 2017 02:50:00 PM CEST
$ pacman -Qi flashplugin | grep -i "install date"
Install Date    : Mon 19 Jun 2017 02:50:00 PM CEST

I followed the instructions of this topic https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … leshooting and got

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC293 Analog [ALC293 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Since there is only a card 0 in my case, I added the following file

$ cat ~/.asoundrc
pcm.!default {                                                                   
    type hw                                                                      
    card 0                                                                       
}                                                                                
                                                                                 
ctl.!default {                                                                   
    type hw                                                                      
    card 0                                                                       
}

which does not help either.

When I play music with my media player, the sound works just fine.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by Starfish (2017-06-20 08:51:26)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Version of pulseaudio?

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Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Version of pulseaudio?

Uhhmmm... None. I just installed it for the first time, restarted my PC and now it works. Much obliged :-)

Can you tell me why I could live without it before?

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adesh

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Registered: 2016-10-05

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Earlier you were using ALSA. But recently Firefox has dropped  ALSA support, now it hard-depends on PulseAudio.

Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Earlier you were using ALSA. But recently Firefox has dropped  ALSA support, now it hard-depends on PulseAudio.

Thanks!

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RalphCorderoy

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Registered: 2017-01-25

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Earlier you were using ALSA. But recently Firefox has dropped  ALSA support, now it hard-depends on PulseAudio.

I've the same problem after upgrading firefox 53.0.3-1 -> 54.0-1.
Looking at `pacman -Qi firefox' it says

Depends On      : ... alsa-lib
Optional Deps   : ... pulseaudio: Audio support

There's no [installed] on the pulseaudio line, and I don't have it installed.

Does this mean the package's meta-data is incorrect and pulseaudio should not be optional?

adesh

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Registered: 2016-10-05

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

Does this mean the package's meta-data is incorrect and pulseaudio should not be optional?

PulseAudio is required only for sound support, otherwise without it the browser is fully functional.

RalphCorderoy

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Registered: 2017-01-25

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

But alsa-lib still needs to be mandatory?

adesh

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Registered: 2016-10-05

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in firefox since last upgrade

But alsa-lib still needs to be mandatory?

Not completely sure about that. Someone more knowledgeable might answer that. Or try to get the answer from package maintainer.