Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in
> Firefox. Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had
> previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember. I
> tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox. Also, no
> sound anywhere else. I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back
> (except for Firefox). I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound
> everywhere.
>
> I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but
> I can't get it to work. Can anyone help me get sound working with
> PulseAudio?
make sure you have everything installed that you need.
i had to go find a missing chunk and add it when
this happened to me:
(you may not need the development stuff, but ...)
$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 1.10.4-1
i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libpulse-dev:i386 10.0-1
i386 PulseAudio client development headers
and libraries
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 10.0-1
i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib
support)
ii libpulse0:i386 10.0-1
i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulsedsp:i386 10.0-1
i386 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii pulseaudio 10.0-1
i386 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 10.0-1
i386 Command line tools for the PulseAudio
sound server
=================
hth,
songbird
