On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 19:29:35 -1000, david wrote: >On 06/02/2018 06:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:52:05 -1000, David W. Jones wrote: >>> On June 2, 2018 2:32:13 PM HST, Paul Davis wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >>> >>> [snips] >>> >>>> BTW, Firefox seems to have gone the same way as Skype. >>>> >>>> They still have a native ALSA backend and there's even a JACK one >>>> available. >>> >>> Really? Where? The Firefox I have on Debian is exclusively Pulse. >> >> The Arch Linux firefox packages are build with >> >> ac_add_options --enable-alsa >> ac_add_options --enable-jack >> >> However, if Debian packages shouldn't be build with alsa and/or jack, >> you could install https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse to use alsa. >> Unless you need jack, it's not worse to waste much time building >> Firefox on your own, consider to use apulse. > >I tried that. Didn't work here. But I use JACK, not ALSA. apulse works for alsa only, for jack support you need to compile firefox. When building firefox consider not to build in tmpfs, since tmpfs might be to small. $ df -h | grep tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /tmp tmpfs 786M 52K 786M 1% /run/user/1000 Since I migrated to another machine, I don't remember, but I guess even the around 4 GiB were to small to build firefox. FWIW this is how firefox is configured for Arch Linux: $ grep ac_add_options /tmp/firefox/trunk/PKGBUILD ac_add_options --enable-application=browser ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --enable-release ac_add_options --enable-gold ac_add_options --enable-pie ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2" ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=release ac_add_options --with-distribution-id=org.archlinux ac_add_options --with-google-api-keyfile=${PWD@Q}/google-api-key ac_add_options --with-mozilla-api-keyfile=${PWD@Q}/mozilla-api-key ac_add_options --with-system-zlib ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-alsa ac_add_options --enable-jack ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification ac_add_options --enable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-updater The Debian rules files are a PITA, see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox , it anyway shouldn't be rocket science to add the desired config flags. Note, firefox is bloated, it takes much more time to build firefox, than to build a kernel or ardour. If you want to build in tmpfs, you might want to make tmpfs larger than half of the available memory. Assuming you are still using fstab, you could add a line to /etc/fstab: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=[snip]G 0 0 Replace [snip] with a number, then reboot, or perhaps sudo mount -a does the job, too. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
