Firefox52/Pulseaudio/No Sound (Solved)
Firefox52/Pulseaudio/No Sound (Solved)
Tahrpup, latest updates installed.
Just updated to Fx 52 and of course there's no sound (system woof woof sound test's OK).
Could anyone explain how to get pulseaudio up and running, supposedly it's installed, as are a number of other pulseaudio dependencies I installed to try to get things going.
Any, preferably simple solution to avoid dumping Firefox, would be appreciated.
I tire of Mozilla's idiocy.
Thanks in advance,
Hope I'm in the right forum section now.
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Bud.
Just updated to Fx 52 and of course there's no sound (system woof woof sound test's OK).
Could anyone explain how to get pulseaudio up and running, supposedly it's installed, as are a number of other pulseaudio dependencies I installed to try to get things going.
Any, preferably simple solution to avoid dumping Firefox, would be appreciated.
I tire of Mozilla's idiocy.
Thanks in advance,
Hope I'm in the right forum section now.
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Bud.
Last edited by Bud on Sat 01 Apr 2017, 17:02, edited 1 time in total.
Bud, what's the exact version? Any issues switching over to the latest ESR?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
Ah >> No ALSA support after upgrade to 52?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
Ah >> No ALSA support after upgrade to 52?
>>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<
Wouldn't know, I only use Fx Release and Beta versions.Semme wrote:Bud, what's the exact version? Any issues switching over to the latest ESR?
Like advance warning of what the next 'downgrade' will bring.
To me the ESR's the DMW, dead man walking, prolong the agony version.
Is there a more recent Puppy with Pulseaudio where this Fx problem won't happen ?
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Good thought, Semme.
apulse v0.1.8
@i-rinat i-rinat released this 3 days ago · 1 commit to master since this release
feature: make playback in Firefox working, including volume changing;
https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse/releases
apulse v0.1.8
@i-rinat i-rinat released this 3 days ago · 1 commit to master since this release
feature: make playback in Firefox working, including volume changing;
https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse/releases
Oscar in England
According to its README, the default "make install" procedure looks fine.
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>>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<
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I didn't know about the apulse v0.1.8 at the time. I think I ended up with
pulseaudio-4.0-tahr-i686 that I found on the forum and papprefs_0.9.10-2 from the PPM.
loaded the basic command (pulseaudio) at boot, messed with the preferences and managed to get all of my sound to play .
I only use
Firefox
Iron
palemoon
spotify
They all seem to work with Retrovol.
at first getting sound on firefox killed sound for everything else.
I basically "wung" it, hoping to not screw everything up. it's probably an accidental bandaid fix, as noted but seems to function without problem so far.
pulseaudio-4.0-tahr-i686 that I found on the forum and papprefs_0.9.10-2 from the PPM.
loaded the basic command (pulseaudio) at boot, messed with the preferences and managed to get all of my sound to play .
I only use
Firefox
Iron
palemoon
spotify
They all seem to work with Retrovol.
at first getting sound on firefox killed sound for everything else.
I basically "wung" it, hoping to not screw everything up. it's probably an accidental bandaid fix, as noted but seems to function without problem so far.
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I think you'll find it does work with Puppy and I wouldn't describe it as a band aid. It takes the output from the program (browser in this case) which is looking for pulseaudio and it interfaces it with alsa so the sound emerges in the normal way. We have been using it with Skype for some time now so I don't see why it shouldn't work with Firefox.Bud wrote:Thanks, but that's just a band aid, does it even work with Puppy?
I'd like to know how to install the correct Pulseaudio version and what ever dependencies are needed to maybe make it work.
The one I have installed is 4.something, surely others are having this problem?
But if you prefer, you can install pulseaudio via PPM or compile from source. I did this in the past with Skype but ended up thinking that apulse is a better solution.
Oscar in England
pulseaudio-4.0-tahr606-i386.pet
pulseaudio-4.0-tahr606-i386.pet:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing
The above package starts the pulseaudio daemon in tahr 6.0.6, in slacko 14.2 beta and xenialpup beta for me. Report testing. I remember:
starts the daemon.
stops the daemon.
Later: I have tested working firefox 52.0 in xenialpup 7.0.8.1 with my pulseaudio. I played a youtube video with pulseaudio sound. Confirmed no audio without pulseaudio.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing
The above package starts the pulseaudio daemon in tahr 6.0.6, in slacko 14.2 beta and xenialpup beta for me. Report testing. I remember:
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pulseaudio --start
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pulseaudio --kill
Later: I have tested working firefox 52.0 in xenialpup 7.0.8.1 with my pulseaudio. I played a youtube video with pulseaudio sound. Confirmed no audio without pulseaudio.
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Quick test of Firefox ESR 52.0 in Dpup Wheezy
ESR version is now at 52.0 and the main release is the same version number 52.0
Looks like the ESR version (official build) now requires GTK-3
Wheezy has libgtk-3 and a couple of themes so no problem.
Tried playing a youtube video - no sound.
Installed the apulse-0.1.8 libraries into /usr/lib
They can be stripped if the build process has not done this.
These overwrite runtime lib symlinks with the apulse code.
Started Firefox ESR again and went to youtube
Sound played normally.
ESR version is now at 52.0 and the main release is the same version number 52.0
Looks like the ESR version (official build) now requires GTK-3
Wheezy has libgtk-3 and a couple of themes so no problem.
Tried playing a youtube video - no sound.
Installed the apulse-0.1.8 libraries into /usr/lib
They can be stripped if the build process has not done this.
These overwrite runtime lib symlinks with the apulse code.
Started Firefox ESR again and went to youtube
Sound played normally.
Oscar in England
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With the release of Firefox 52, we are pleased to welcome the 50 developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 45 of whom were brand new volunteers! Please join us in thanking each of these diligent and enthusiastic individuals, and take a look at their contributions:
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2017 ... tributors/
Found this on Donald Trumps Twitter
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2017 ... tributors/
Found this on Donald Trumps Twitter
Now I am in xenialpup64 7.0.8.1. Wanted to run firefox 52.0 with pulseaudio. There is a simple way to do this. Install in PPM pulseaudio_8.0 again even though it is declared already installed. A symlink is needed to start firefox:
Then in console:
I'm posting from it and it plays sound.
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ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
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pulseaudio --start
firefox
Re: pulseaudio-4.0-tahr606-i386.pet
I think I've spent enough time with this, I got it working now its not.
Thanks all, until there's a simple fix that works it's goodbye Firefox.
Guess I should have posted in Beginners Help, after years of using Puppies this is the first thing I can't fix.
No doubt the 50 Mozilloids are in a drum circle exchanging congratulatory badges
Thanks all, until there's a simple fix that works it's goodbye Firefox.
Guess I should have posted in Beginners Help, after years of using Puppies this is the first thing I can't fix.
No doubt the 50 Mozilloids are in a drum circle exchanging congratulatory badges
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