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On 2022-07-15, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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>> It looks like www-client/google-chrome just added wayland and jack |
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>> audio to the dependancies. So now I have to have Pulse _and_ Jack? |
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> Is that truly a Chrome requirement, like the company Google wrote |
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> the ebuild, or is this something a Gentoo dev did for some reason? |
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Google doesn't provide an ebuild. The ebuild is written maintained by |
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the kind volunteers of the Chromium in Gentoo Project. For the binary |
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distribution from Google, those devs have no control over what |
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libraries the Chrome executables are built to use. All they can do is |
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try to figure out which libraries Chrome needs, and reflect that in |
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the ebuild so that after the binary from Google gets installed, it |
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works. |
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That said, there was no jack audio requirement for Chrome. I misread |
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the emerge output. The two new requirements that google-chrome was |
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pulling in were |
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dev-libs/wayland |
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dev-util/wayland-scanner |
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You don't have to be running Wayland, but you now need the above |
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wayland pieces. |
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There isn't actually a pulse audio requirement in the google-chrome |
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ebuild either, but if I don't have pulse installed, some audio stuff |
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in Chrome doesn't work. In web apps like Google Voice |
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* I can select my headset mic as audio in, but it won't work. |
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* I can't select headset as audio out. |
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Installing pulse audio fixed those problems. |
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> I'm curious as the USB disconnect problem seems somehow to be |
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> related to using Chrome on the host machine for sites that do a lot |
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> of audio, like YouTube. A clean boot of the host machine, followed |
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> by a clean boot of the VM and I've run for at least an hour with no |
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> disconnection problems. I can use Chrome for email, messaging and |
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> reading newspapers with no problem, but I run YouTube and twice I've |
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> had USB problems in the VM. |
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Yep, it sounds like doing audio via Chrome is disrupting the the USB |
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audio device that's in-use by the VM. Are there Linux audio drivers |
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for that hardware that you could uninstall to keep Chrome from seeing |
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it? |
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Grant |
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