Firefox no sound

[Member Raziel408]

Hi again:
Loving the distro

I have a problem. I have no clue. I like to use the lastest version of firefox. So I download the .tar and uncompres it on my home dir. But the sound of firefox is not working. I tried installing pulse audio but no. I’m sure the sound is working in my pc. since I managed to play audio files and the audio test is working.

[Moderator caprea]

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Hi Raziel408, first of all it is not necessary to install pulseaudio to have sound in firefox.

If you start firefox with
apulse firefox

then the sound is working. apulse is pre-installed with antiX.

Second, you can install the latest firefox with the package-installer in control-centre > system > package-installer.

But you say you have pulseaudio already installed and still no sound. Maybe you just uninstall it again and use apulse.

Or if you want to keep pulseaudio, let’s see if it runs first.

ps -C pulseaudio

If there are no numbers in the output only letters, pulseaudio isn’t running. Try to start it with

pulseaudio -D

[Member Raziel408]

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Thanks,

apulse firefox

didn’t work

ps -C pulseaudio

returned no numbers, so:

pulseaudio -D

Worked!

I installed pulseaudio based in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues#w_you-may-need-to-install-the-required-pulseaudio-software
Thanks a lot!

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OK. fine it works.

If you have the problem pulseaudio doesn’t autostart after booting, you can open

control-centre > session > User session configuration

It will open the startup-file of the desktop-session with geany

There you can add below

pulseaudio --start

Also, if you use pulseaudio, you may want to install “pavucontrol”. It gives you better adjustment possibilities.

[Member Raziel408]

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caprea wrote:

Hi Raziel408, first of all it is not necessary to install pulseaudio to have sound in firefox.

If you start firefox with
apulse firefox

then the sound is working. apulse is pre-installed with antiX.

Second, you can install the latest firefox with the package-installer in control-centre > system > package-installer.

But you say you have pulseaudio already installed and still no sound. Maybe you just uninstall it again and use apulse.

Or if you want to keep pulseaudio, let’s see if it runs first.

ps -C pulseaudio

If there are no numbers in the output only letters, pulseaudio isn’t running. Try to start it with

pulseaudio -D

I’m no fan of having a lot of packages for the sema thing, so now I’m trying to use apulse. I installed firefox via apt-get and removed pulseaudio.
No sound. Re install firefox via apt-get, no sound. tried:

apulse firefox

Now that works. Tried to purge firefox, and reinstall. Still no sound. But still apulse firefox works. How do I make firefox use apulse by default?

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This is quick and easy to do, but depends heavily on how you want to open firefox (from menu or toolbar)and which desktop you use, eg icewm, rox-fluxbox and so on.
The conky should tell you about it under “Uptime”.Please post this information.

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi All, I posted on this a while back, still works fine for me.
Install patchelf #: sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install patchelf

Change to within your firefox packet or installation directory. cd to get there

Then do: patchelf –set -rpath /usr/lib/apulse libxul.so

patchelf –set-rpath /usr/lib/apulse libxul.so

If you installed to a root directory, not home (from a repo or a deb file). prefix with
sudo or your command will fail due to lack of rights.

Note: Watch out for browser updates, you will in my experience have to repeat the abovew steps afterwards.

You might have to change firefox about config preferences to following. I had to but that might change with new versions.

security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist;16
security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist;/dev/snd/

Current Firefox versions seem to ignore ~/.asound.conf (~/. means hidden file in home, dot before file or folder name =hidden)
you may need to select the default audio output to a different one. If the system settings do not work for you please try following. I was unable to get my Audigy card working using GUI options, sound always defaulted to Onboard, even with that option switched off in BIOS, this fixed it.
Put an .asound.conf in your home:

pcm.!default {
type hw
card N
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card N
}

Substitute N with a small integer, 0 for your first sound card (which is the default), 1 for your second, and so on.

The ! in !default isn’t negation here! It is an overriding of the previously (system-wide defined) global alsa.conf .

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Raziel408 wrote:

How do I make firefox use apulse by default?

ModdIt wrote:

Change to within your firefox packet or installation directory. cd to get there

Then do: patchelf –set -rpath /usr/lib/apulse libxul.so

patchelf –set-rpath /usr/lib/apulse libxul.so

Yes, it’s also possible to use Moddit’s solution, instead of changing menu-entries and so on.

On my antiX19 64bit, and firefox installed via the package-installer or apt-get (and due to the forum-software, which turns 2 dashes into one),

I had to change the commands to the following

sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install patchelf
cd /opt/firefox

sudo patchelf --set-rpath /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/apulse /opt/firefox/libxul.so

No other modifications have been necessary here.
But you have to watch up for firefox-updates, which require the repeating of the procedure.

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Sorry for the delayed answer.

caprea wrote:

Raziel408 wrote:

How do I make firefox use apulse by default?

ModdIt wrote:

On my antiX19 64bit, and firefox installed via the package-installer or apt-get (and due to the forum-software, which turns 2 dashes into one),

I had to change the commands to the following

sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install patchelf
cd /opt/firefox

sudo patchelf --set-rpath /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/apulse /opt/firefox/libxul.so

No other modifications have been necessary here.
But you have to watch up for firefox-updates, which require the repeating of the procedure.

I tried this solution. It worked perfectly. Thanks a lot.
I was also aware the I could change the menus, but that solution didn’t seem very efficient. Thanks a lot anyway.

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Hi all, You may now only have to do patchelf job once, latest updates have just worked with .asound config in
home.
Content in my case is as below. Depending on your setup you may need to change this.

#Substitute N with a small integer, 0 for your first sound card (which is the default),
#1 for your second, and so on.

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

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