On 02/10/2012 11:01 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:22:53AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
May I ask if sound is working for you with the linux.com video
mentioned in message #46?
It is working for me.
OK, time (for me) to start ruling out causes for the problem. There are
many things on my end that could be involved:
0) Architecture: I'm using amd64; what are you running?
1) I am using a very old Sid install, constantly updated -- through
many permutations of hardware -- since 2007. I could easily have some
bad config cruft somewhere. (An old config file totally broke VLC for
me about a year ago, for example.)
2) I use a locally-built kernel, and a locally-built X stack.
3) I use an /etc/asound.conf file to make my system default to card 1
instead of card 0. (The complicated device which is detected as card 0
on my machine caused 'audacity' to stop working about 1.5 years ago, due
to some updated device initialization code which was written poorly and
failed to check for error codes returned by library routines. Does the
'iceweasel' sound code honor the default PCM device if /etc/asound.conf
is present, or does it assume hardware device 0 is its output?
4) I use debian-multimedia.org packages. Not sure if any 'iceweasel'
dependencies touch those packages, however.
So, I have quite a few things to try. I also have a "server" (actually
made from desktop parts) which has no X software installed, and where
sound currently is not even configured. I've been meaning to test the
status of X support on that hardware anyway (it is a newish AMD Llano
CPU/GPU combo), so if I can get sound working on that box I can test the
problem videos with 'iceweasel' there.
If I discover anything useful, I'll report back here. Not sure what
time frame in which I will get to this testing, however. I have some
higher priorities at the moment....
Thanks,
Dave W.
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