Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...

[Miroslav Rovis]

On 161119-00:33-0800, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 11/18/2016 10:11 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> > Hi Meino!
> >
> > I regret not having told you more... See below...
> >
> > And there is a question/query/my-asking-for-advice further below.
> >
> > On 161016-08:48+0200, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> >> Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> [16-10-16 07:00]:
> >>> On 161015-20:27+0200, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed.
> >>>> This one seem completly to disable flash video finally...
> >>>> since I got no video/audio at all.
> >>>>
> >>>> I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and
> >>>> restarted  it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now I got a video ... but without any audio.
> >>>> (I am running jackd by the way).
> >>>> I check with qjackctl whether there were any
> >>>> ports which I missed to connect...nothing.
> >>>
> >>> If jackd is to do with alsa, then it could be the following.
> >>>
> >>> Mozilla went pulse all the way:
> >>>  Require PulseAudio on Linux
> >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
> >>> See also:
> >>> Firefox nightly requires Pulse Audio
> >>> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130028
> >>>
> >>>> Hmmm...
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any fix for that?
> >>> Not familiar with jackd. But as far as alsa (which I stick to, like
> >>> other discontented users), I don't have sound since months ago.  The
> >>> only way to get it would be to compile alsa myself, I'm afraid.
> >>>
> >>> Regards!
> >>> --
> >>> Miroslav Rovis
> >>> Zagreb, Croatia
> >>> http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
> >>
> >> Hi Miroslav,
> >>
> >> THANKS A LOT ! :)
> > You may not thank me, if you read my view, and even remotely agree:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@×××××××××××××××××.net/msg31926.html
> > ( and that is what I regret not having told you... I regret it because
> > you now may remain with that pulse spyware..
> >
> > However, pls. note that in my first message to you I just said what the
> > reason was. I did not recommend pulse to you... )
> >
> >> ...got it working...somehow...
> >>
> >> I installed pulseaudio and used pactl to set the default sink
> >> and source to the one soundcard (onboard), which is connected
> >> to my loudspeakers.
> >>
> >> Drawback: Setting the volume seems only to be tweakable via
> >> the volume slider of the HTML5 player in Firefox...and my alsa
> >> volume "app" of my taskbar doesn't work anymore.
> >>
> >> Hopefully the rest of my sound stuff still works....
> >>
> >
> > And now the question/query/my-asking-for-advice.
> >
> > In that thred on alsa-user archive that I linked to, I got this link:
> >
> > [linuxaudio.org] html5 in ff through jack
> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2016-June/thread.html#105188
> >
> > I'm gasping for free time to do various things, fixing audio in ff is
> > not of higest priority... Can not dedicate hours to this...
> >
> > Anyone has a link for easy fixing of audio in Firefox the sans-pulse
> > way (and other poetterware excluded as well, of course)? With clear easy
> > steps, maybe?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!

So it's only this, probably (and I had given links that, indirectly,
mislead another Gentoo user...):

> Generally if you run into this problem, it's one of two things:
>
> 1. `alsamixer` hasn't been used to unmute the levels. After configuring
> it, be sure to run 'alsactl store' as root and make sure the 'alsasound'
> service is in the default run-level (`rc-update add alsasound default`
> as root), or...
> 2. Try adding these to your user's ~/.asoundrc file:
>
> defaults.ctl.card x;
> defaults.pcm.card x;
>
> Replace 'x' with the numeric index of your card (which you can view in
> alsamixer using F6). If the order of your cards changes on boot, you'll
> need to tell the module controlling your sound (snd_hda_intel is common)
> to set its index in a file like /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, with
> lines like `options snd_hda_intel index=1` or something similar.
>
> Others have done a far better job explaining this than me. Our own guide
> on our wiki [0] and Arch's wiki [1] should be adequate to get you going
> fairly quickly. Just Ctrl+F "default" to find what you need. Assuming
> you don't have exotic hardware, this can be fixed in 15 minutes or less.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> [0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#Configuration
> [1]:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Set_the_default_sound_card
> --
> Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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And here is a Gentoo developer who is helping us out:

https://dev.gentoo.org/~zlg/

Really thanks!

I don't think I even need to be back to report here if this just works
(will try it next), but I'll make sure I CC this to Meino...

Meino (for the Anglo folks, and for the only-English-as-foreign-language
speakers: that name, or don't know if it's a nickname, is pronounced,
approximately, as if it was written Mino ), I'm sorry again.

FYI, once I even installed the SELinux (whose original manufacturer is
NSA itself), but I was able to go back to the state of my system
previous to installing it... However, I was able to do it only from
dd-made backup of my entire system...

I hope you still have some way left to still go pulse-free.. Pulse
should not have its tentacles as deep as SELinux does (or used to have;
my brush with it happened some 5 or 6 years ago, I had reported it on
Gentoo Forums)...

Regards!
-- 
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr