Youtube sound issues following firefox upgrade

[chtfn]

You might not like my opinion though.
we should get over the unrational fear of pulseaudio, it's good software and it's here to stay.

the pulseaudio "haters" are a vocal minority. most people just want working audio out of the box, and that's what pulseaudio does - most of time.
jack and pulseaudio can live happily together, much more than jack and raw alsa apps.

Great, thank you for your reply! Coming from you, I am happy with that statement. I was coming from hearing all the pulseaudio complaints, and you providing an ISO for a base system working without pulseaudio at all. I assumed there was a good reason to leave pulseaudio out of a vanilla KXStudio install.

Cheers

[chtfn]

By the way, I am still unable to install pulseaudio and other related packages. Does anyone have a hint? See below:

Is anyone else having issues installing pulseaudio? I just need to install pulseaudio-module-jack and its dependencies for Firefox 52 to give me sound (as described above) but I get an "unmet dependencies" issue with apt-get install:

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 pulseaudio-module-jack : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

If I use aptitude, I get some more info:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1) but 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 is installed.

[chtfn]

...and the latest Firefox update (Version 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1):

* Fix LP: #1671273 - Build with --enable-alsa for now to re-enable the
unmaintained ALSA backend. Note that problems with the ALSA backend will
not block future updates and Ubuntu flavors that ship without Pulseaudio
need to participate in maintaining this code

[lilith]

By the way, I am still unable to install pulseaudio and other related packages. Does anyone have a hint? See below:

Is anyone else having issues installing pulseaudio? I just need to install pulseaudio-module-jack and its dependencies for Firefox 52 to give me sound (as described above) but I get an "unmet dependencies" issue with apt-get install:

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 pulseaudio-module-jack : Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

If I use aptitude, I get some more info:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1) but 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1+kxstudio1 is installed.

I have the same problem.

[chtfn]

I have the same problem.

Hey Lilith

I seem to have found the solution, as I had to look into it again to install something different (Wine). Looking into the unresolved dependencies and following the thread to the bottom, I found that libpulse0 was again the culprit. The version was recent enough, and the package was already installed, but it was still being a pain, probably because of the kxstudio extension to the version number.

Here is what I had to do:

Find what versions of libpulse0 are available / installed:

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apt-cache policy libpulse0

Replace the current version with the one from the Ubuntu repos (in my case, 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1):

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sudo apt-get install libpulse0=1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1

And try to install pulseaudio-module-jack again.

I'm curious to see if that solves it for you!

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chtfn

That fixed my similar problem.

thx

[Blindekinder]

No way to listen to HTML5 sound without PA?
I have a "regular" system with PA (with which I never get my RME Multiface to work), and a "sound system" with Jack (KX from ISO).
Sometimes I had sound in Firefox, sometimes not. Now it's silent...

[cousticous]

Hey there, having the same problem over here. Kxstudio 14.04.

First of all: my Audiointerface and Firefox worked before the Firefox update.
Then: no sound in Firefox.

So I installed Pulseaudio.
Now Cadence won't start with my USB Audiointerface.
The internal soundcard (hw:PCH,0 [ALC892 Analog]) still works.

The log says something with Alsas Playback is wrong, but i can't figure out how to solve this:

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Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Controller activated. Version 1.9.11-RC1 (unknown) built on Sat Jul 22 11:53:15 2017
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Loading settings from "/home/karl/.config/jack/conf.xml" using expat_2.1.0 ...
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'engine':'driver':'(null)' to value "alsa"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'engine':'realtime':'(null)' to value "true"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'engine':'realtime-priority':'(null)' to value "85"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'loopback':'channels' to value "3"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'device' to value "hw:USB,0"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'capture' to value "none"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'playback' to value "none"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'rate' to value "44100"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'period' to value "256"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'nperiods' to value "2"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'hw-alias' to value "true"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Listening for D-Bus messages
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Starting jack server...
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 85
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Acquired audio card Audio3
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: creating alsa driver ... hw:USB,0|hw:USB,0|256|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Using ALSA driver USB-Audio running on card 3 - Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB at usb-0000:00:14.0-8, high speed
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 2 periods
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ERROR: ALSA: cannot set hardware parameters for playback
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ERROR: ALSA: cannot configure playback channel
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: Released audio card Audio3
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ERROR: Cannot initialize driver
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ERROR: JackServer::Open failed with -1
Mon Sep 18 16:28:44 2017: ERROR: Failed to open server
Mon Sep 18 16:29:15 2017: Saving settings to "/home/karl/.config/jack/conf.xml" ...

Thanks for helping!