As a workaround, have you tried using apulse? It is a pulseaudio
emulation for ALSA. Some time ago, I used it successfully to run Skype
(which also depends on pulseaudio) without having pulseaudio installed.
Am 07.03.2017 um 10:49 schrieb SanskritFritz via arch-general:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:26 AM, jjgaris via arch-general <
arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:00:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 07/03/17 18:29, jjgaris via arch-general wrote:
Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken.
This seems to be because pulse audio is now a dependency by default in
firefox.
However firefox can still be build with ALSA support.
Without getting into any dicussion about issues about pulseaudio
itself, I believe it should be possible to use firefox on arch without
being forces to use pulse
audio. I am certainly not the only one to have banned this package
from my boxes. And having more choices is certainly a good thing.
Not sure this is the right place but I would like to ask to change
back to the old defaults (ALSA).
With the old defaults, the user can choose to use pulse audio (or
JACK) or stay with plain ALSA support.
Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream
You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only.
A
Building firefox takes hours making this not really an option for many
users.
Arch has deviated before from the upstream default, I see no reason why we
should follow upstream by restricting the
choice of the user.
Does a kind soul provide an alternative build of Firefox? I had to remove
pulse audio from my system due to a bug, while Alsa works just fine.
