Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:34:30 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:06:50PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:25:09 +0200
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> > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
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> > > > Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device.
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> > > > However playing audio in iceweasel does not work.
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> > > Have you tried to select the "sound card" with alsamixer?
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> > i forgot to say, the correct audio output comes up as default device in alsamixer.
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> This sounds bizarre. The only hit I find in the intratubes matching
> what you describe is here:
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>   http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=20271
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> which might be interpreted as "the browser is using slot 0, regardless
> of what the user chooses". I still can't quite believe that, but it
> might something to try.

i'll give it a try.
again notice that this is a problem report from 3 years ago.

this is a persistent problem, and almost certainly the reason i probably installed pulse audio.

Brian