Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 June 2022 13:30:16 BST Julien Roy wrote: > By default, only the LTS/ESR release of Firefox is unmasked (or marked > as stable), of which the latest version is 91.10.0, however, if you > unmask it, you can use the latest Firefox version, currently 101.0.1. > Though unmasking

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/18/22 07:53, Peter Humphrey wrote: I did tell them that 91.10.0 is the latest version in the portage tree; By default, only the LTS/ESR release of Firefox is unmasked (or marked as stable), of which the latest version is 91.10.0, however, if you unmask it, you can use the latest Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10:38 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > ... I'll also report the problem to the developers. Done that. It seems that a newer version of FF is unaffected. Startpage in version 101.0.1does not kill the sound. I did tell them that 91.10.0 is the latest version in the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 June 2022 12:19:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: > > Is StartPage to be trusted, anymore than all the rest mass surveillance > > corporates? > > I don't know; is that what they do? Have you looked at https:// > eu.startpage.com/ ?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > > > stop working! > > > > Well, it may not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > > stop working! > > Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to > find

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > stop working! Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to find it! > Anyway, glad that you figured it out :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/16/22 12:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: Having spent several hours at this today, I've concluded that the problem is caused by the Startpage add-on to Firefox. Specifically, startpage 1.3 and Firefox 71.10. Early in the stepwise setting everything up, I started Firefox, set its typefaces and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10:38 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for > > > the > > > next iteration. The problem is just the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the > > next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's > > needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:00:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user > account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - > but that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the > > next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's > > needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't helped. Hey-ho. Here we must go again... What is certain is that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:21:51 BST Julien Roy wrote: > A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: Thanks for you help. > - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to > this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", The evidence points squarely

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, I'm not sure if my previous email went through correctly, so I will try again: A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", - Install a different DE

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", - Install a different DE (or perhaps a WM would be faster), to see whether this is KDE-related, or system

[gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is. I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired