<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi James<br><br></div>Thanks for the response.<br><br></div>I installed Firefox on the 32020 build two different ways to test:<br><br>1. Using 'yum install' to get it from the repo. This installs Ver 26 as per your email.<br></div>2. Using the download (firefox-50.1.0.tar.bz2) from the Firefox downloads site which gives Ver 50.<br><br></div>The behaviour of both versions with respect to the sound appears to be the same.<br><br></div><div>The browsers will play an mp3 file when it is simply linked within a web site, (by default using the VLC plug-in according to the FF Preferences/Application dialogue) but will not play an mp3 file within simple HTML5 sites (eg our vt-motoli site)<br>The Reading Eggs site works well visually (it won't work properly in Epiphany), but is absolutely silent. As far as I understand, this site is using Flash.<br><br></div><div>It seems from some postings I read that FF expects to have Pulse Audio support on Linux systems (and this is not included in the XO software).<br></div><div>So it is interesting that when you installed apulse, there is still an issue.<br><br></div><div>Ref:  <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/451074/firefox_to_make_pulseaudio_a_hard_requirement_on/">https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/451074/firefox_to_make_pulseaudio_a_hard_requirement_on/</a><br></div><div><br></div>regards<br></div>Terry<br><div><div><div><br><br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:39:02 +1100<br>
From: James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: Firefox on XO<br>
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G'day Terry,<br>
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You didn't mention which version of Firefox.<br>
<br>
With firefox-26.0-2 from the Fedora 18 repository your no-sound issue<br>
with those sites reproduces.<br>
<br>
Then I installed apulse, a PulseAudio emulation for ALSA, but the<br>
problem persisted.  Looking at /proc/$(pidof firefox)/smaps the<br>
libpulse libraries are not mapped.<br>
<br>
Which Firefox are you trying, and how are you trying it?<br>
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References:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/i-rinat/<wbr>apulse</a> (source)<br>
<a href="https://github.com/vitvegl/apulse-rpm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/vitvegl/<wbr>apulse-rpm</a> (for the spec file)<br>
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dependencies: gcc-c++ gcc-sh-linux-gnu cmake alsa-lib-devel glib2-devel alsa-lib glib2<br>
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On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:52:39AM +1000, T Gillett wrote:<br>
> Hi All<br>
><br>
> I have installed Firefox on the current 13.2.8 build on XO-1.5 and it works OK<br>
> except that there is no sound on some websites.<br>
> Other sites work OK.<br>
><br>
> This seems to be a known problem:<br>
>     [1]<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mozilla.<wbr>org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042</a><br>
>     [2]<a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277040" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.<wbr>org/showthread.php?t=277040</a><br>
>     [3]<a href="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65978/fedora-21-fi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ask.fedoraproject.<wbr>org/en/question/65978/fedora-<wbr>21-fi</a><br>
> refox-3603-and-flash-no-sound-<wbr>system-sound-fine/<br>
>     [4]<a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144395/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unix.stackexchange.<wbr>com/questions/144395/</a><br>
> firefox-html5-asoundrc-no-<wbr>sound<br>
><br>
> The issue seems to revolve around getting FF to use ALSA for sound, and without<br>
> installing PulseAudio.<br>
>  <br>
> I am wondering if anyone using Firefox on XO has encountered and/or solved this<br>
> problem.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.<br>
> Terry<br>
><br>
> ------------------------<br>
><br>
> Some sites for testing the audio. Open any of these in a new tab and you should<br>
> hear audio.<br>
><br>
> 1.    [5]<a href="http://student.readingeggs.com//sample_lessons/#/sample/lesson/6/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://student.readingeggs.<wbr>com//sample_lessons/#/sample/<wbr>lesson/6/</a><br>
> activity/1<br>
> No sound on XO.<br>
><br>
> 2.    [6]<a href="http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_03/cg_03.html#l-en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_<wbr>03/cg_03.html#l-en</a><br>
> No sound on XO.<br>
><br>
> 3.    [7]<a href="http://robbbenson.com/01%20Eve.mp3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://robbbenson.com/01%<wbr>20Eve.mp3</a><br>
> Sound OK.<br>
><br>
> References:<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/<wbr>show_bug.cgi?id=803042</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277040" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/<wbr>showthread.php?t=277040</a><br>
> [3] <a href="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65978/fedora-21-firefox-3603-and-flash-no-sound-system-sound-fine/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ask.fedoraproject.org/<wbr>en/question/65978/fedora-21-<wbr>firefox-3603-and-flash-no-<wbr>sound-system-sound-fine/</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144395/firefox-html5-asoundrc-no-sound" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unix.stackexchange.com/<wbr>questions/144395/firefox-<wbr>html5-asoundrc-no-sound</a><br>
> [5] <a href="http://student.readingeggs.com//sample_lessons/#/sample/lesson/6/activity/2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://student.readingeggs.<wbr>com//sample_lessons/#/sample/<wbr>lesson/6/activity/2</a><br>
> [6] <a href="http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_03/cg_03.html#l-en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_03/<wbr>cg_03.html#l-en</a><br>
> [7] <a href="http://robbbenson.com/01%20Eve.mp3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://robbbenson.com/01%<wbr>20Eve.mp3</a><br>
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