Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:37:30 + Mick wrote: > > PulseAudio is to audio what X.org is to video: stream mixing > > software. > > I see ... so for many use cases that do not require to selectively > modify the volume of different outputs, pulseaudio is really not > necessary at all (I can alway

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-07 Thread Francisco Ares
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 00:16:31 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > > The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great > > if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a > > bluetooth headset, a headphone,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-07 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 00:16:31 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great > if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a > bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA > can't handle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, walt wrote: > On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable >> to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance. >> >> I remember there was a little trick to make past ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts to toggle .asoundrc prof

[gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread walt
On 12/04/2011 01:41 PM, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable to hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance. I remember there was a little trick to make past versions of FF to work with pulse audio (that I use so VirtualBox m