[LAU] Some disturbing news

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Jun 3 07:29:35 CEST 2018


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.

Stupid Firefox.


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