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MrAccident · Joined: 31 Mar 2014 Posts: 361

I've found a thread on this forum about the subject - but couldn't understand anything.
So from the beginning - sound in FireFox as of latest version - doesn't work, and the program's notification tells me to install PulseAudio.
This is the page I found for installation -

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

Pup version? Really, "ALWAYS" include this when asking for help.

Have you got its corresponding devx loaded? It contains build tools required for compiling.

MrAccident · Joined: 31 Mar 2014 Posts: 361

Sorry, forgot; Slacko 5.7.0.
I installed only PulseAudio without the dependencies - but that just made FireFox crash when the video started.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

And my other question?

watchdog · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 2022 Location: Italy

In slacko 5.7 works the following pulseaudio by OscarTalks:

http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/pulseaudio-2.1-i486-w5.pet

Install it and type in console:

MrAccident · Joined: 31 Mar 2014 Posts: 361

+watchdog

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2202 Location: London, England

As an alternative, try installing the suitable apulse package from:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
Then just run Firefox with the command

MrAccident · Joined: 31 Mar 2014 Posts: 361

+OscarTalks - WORKS! Thanks a lot!

James186282 · Joined: 08 Sep 2009 Posts: 270 Location: Minnesota

I am so pissed that I wasted a morning trying to figure out why Firefox suddenly didn't do sound. It seems to me that if your going to change your program so that it suddenly is not going to work on a large qty of Linux systems you should have some sort of serious message alerting the user. There was a "suggestion" about me loading Pulse but thats as appealing to me as loading another buggy version of Flash?

The comment made from Mozilla about Firefox not going to continue to use ALSA "Not going to happen" inspires me to say that its a perfect time to switch to Opera or? I've already made up a output file of bookmarks. Now doing some of the tedious stuff concerning passwords and so forth. So far my first impression is Opera is small and fast and its not Firefox. Which was sort of my reason for switching to Firefox. IE It wasn't Microsoft Explorer. These guys do know that Pulse etc all sit on top of ALSA? That sound latency is a serious issue that isn't done well when you stack more abstraction layers on top of each other.

Skype was the first program (That I used) that decided ALSA wasn't going to be supported any longer. It took a lot of screwing around but I got Pulse on a machine but... Skype then became unusually crappy and I kept having sound problems. So my next machine didn't have Skype or pulse and I'm much happier. Maybe its just me but I think Microsoft can ruin anything it touches and Skype is a good example. When a program decides it needs more abstraction I decide that the people writing the code don't know what they are doing and that like so many other things has crossed into being more garbage/bloatware.

Seriously - what does Pulse do that ALSA can't? Some might say its easier but that (To me) is totally subjective. The further away from the actual hardware operates the more difficult it becomes to do things correctly or know what is really going on. If Mozilla can't find guys who can handle writing code for ALSA maybe they should not be "upgrading" Firefox every week? Speaking of which - I think the sign that a program is going to hell is when its so easily screwed with that it needs updates all the time.

I wish I had saved my notes but in the end I just decided installing Pulse was a seriously bad move. If your having trouble installing Pulse your not alone. In fact I'll give you even odds that when your done the sound won't work with anything.

ALSA is going to be there regardless if its being supported so why not support what HAS to be on every Linux machine and not a bloated abstraction layer of slow code?

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub

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bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA

boolean · Joined: 31 Oct 2009 Posts: 35

anyone can recompile for x64? , this is for x32

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2202 Location: London, England

I don't do much with 64bit but try this:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.10-x86_64.pet
Compiled in Tahr64
Tested briefly with Firefox 52.0.1 in Slacko64-6.3.0 as well as Tahr64-6.0.5 and youtube sound worked in both.
EDIT:- I have swapped it now for one compiled in Slacko64-6.3.0 only because the glibc version is earlier, although the tahr one was working fine in both.

RickGT351 · Posted: Wed 22 Mar 2017, 18:41 Post subject:

artsown · Joined: 12 Sep 2012 Posts: 403

I've briefly tested both the 32 and 64 bit versions of the apulse pets on
the 32 and 64 bit versions of tahrpup and xenialpup. Audio now works
on all four using firefox 52.0.1

That's great, OscarTalks! Thanks.

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