On 03/20/2017 03:16 PM, songbird wrote:
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
It's working, now. Not sure what the problem was, but after purging and
reinstalling PulseAudio I now have sound that works in the latest
Firefox. I still think that it would be better if this hard requirement
did not exist, but at least it is working now. I just hope that
whatever the problem was (years back) that caused me to purge PulseAudio
in the first place has been fixed and does not come back to bite me.
I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a while,
until I am sure that I don't need to revert to it.
Marc
