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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:12:15
Message-Id: 20150428171153.384b0da2@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox by "»Q«"
1 On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:59:17 -0500
2 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0300
5 > Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi> wrote:
6 >
7 > > How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio
8 > > playback?
9 >
10 > There is no way. Mozilla products will only ever use card 0. I had
11 > to solve it on a laptop I once had, but I don't remember the
12 > details. I think no amount of tinkering with asound.conf will help,
13 > only switching the card numbers via kernel boot parameters.
14
15 <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#HTML5_does_not_play_in_the_Firefox_browser>
16
17 If that had been in the wiki when I had the problem, it would have
18 saved me about a week of searching through blogs and bug reports. Hope
19 it works for you!