Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:26:30 +0100
Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 22:40 +0200, 007@caiway.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working.
> >
> > Another user does have sound on stock firefox.
> >
> > I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not
> > be
> > loaded any longer.
> >
> > 7 Chapters of troubleshooting pulseaudio did not help me in 4 hours:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
> >
> > Another thing from this guy Pottering does not give any hint:
> >
> > journalctl -f
> > journalctl -f | grep pulseaudio
> >
> > nothing
> >
> > pulsemixer does seem to be alright:
> > firefox: AudioStream is showing up, I can select it, and set volume
> > (but
> > no sound).
> >
> > but:
> > $ pactl list sink-inputs
> > no output at all
> >
> > $ pacmd list-sink-inputs
> > 0 sink input(s) available.
> >
> >
> > I am left clueless.
> > (no timidity here installed.
> > alsamixer shows the pulseaudio interface, unmuted)
> >
> > [
> > I hate pulseaudio since when I had a linux terminal server project
> > LAN.
> > In those days pulseaudio fucked up all LAN audio playing.
> > ]
> >
> > Waterfox and Palemoon browsers both play audio well.
> >
> > Hope someone can give a hint
> >
> > Thanks 4 reading
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Where did you source the firefox 75 you are using with debian
> buster/stable?
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
I downloaded this firefox from mozilla.
I also tried the apulse method: no sound.
debian buster, daily updated, amd64.
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