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On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable |
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> to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance. |
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> I remember there was a little trick to make past versions of FF to |
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> work with pulse audio (that I use so VirtualBox machines can also |
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> play sounds), but can't find what it was. |
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Hi Francisco. I can't answer your Firefox question, sorry, but may |
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I ask you a question about pulseaudio instead? |
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There are several of us old atavistic grumps (you know who you are, |
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Alan) who can't see any use for pulseaudio and therefore disable it |
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with useflags and any other way we can. |
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For example, I use vbox all the time and have no problem getting |
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sound from my vbox guests, or from firefox or any other application. |
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Sound "just works" without pulseaudio -- so why do I need it? |
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Sadly, gnome3 has made pulseaudio mandatory if I want to use the |
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volume control applet on gnome-panel (and I do) so I now have the |
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pulseaudio daemon running in the background, but all of my apps |
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are built without the pulseaudio useflag and all produce good |
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sound even when I kill the pulseaudio daemon manually. |
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I still don't get the whole idea behind pulseaudio. |
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