With Pulseaudio the best way (I have found) for controling the volume, is through the pulse audio volume controls.
It works well for me. Though they are somewhat of a pain (though not sure if that's because I simply don't know the "easier" way to handle them. I also tend to like to handle volume control through external speaker controls if practical. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2016-10-15 23:48, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> [16-10-16 07:00]: > > On 161015-20:27+0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed. > >> This one seem completly to disable flash video finally... > >> since I got no video/audio at all. > >> > >> I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and > >> restarted it. > >> > >> Now I got a video ... but without any audio. > >> (I am running jackd by the way). > >> I check with qjackctl whether there were any > >> ports which I missed to connect...nothing. > > > > If jackd is to do with alsa, then it could be the following. > > > > Mozilla went pulse all the way: > > Require PulseAudio on Linux > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056 > > See also: > > Firefox nightly requires Pulse Audio > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130028 > > > >> Hmmm... > >> > >> Is there any fix for that? > > Not familiar with jackd. But as far as alsa (which I stick to, like > > other discontented users), I don't have sound since months ago. The > > only way to get it would be to compile alsa myself, I'm afraid. > > > > Regards! > > -- > > Miroslav Rovis > > Zagreb, Croatia > > http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr > > Hi Miroslav, > > THANKS A LOT ! :) > > ...got it working...somehow... > > I installed pulseaudio and used pactl to set the default sink > and source to the one soundcard (onboard), which is connected > to my loudspeakers. > > Drawback: Setting the volume seems only to be tweakable via > the volume slider of the HTML5 player in Firefox...and my alsa > volume "app" of my taskbar doesn't work anymore. > > Hopefully the rest of my sound stuff still works.... > > > Cheers, > Meino > -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270 Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 Canada ....................................................................... ... This message should be electronically signed, and if the sender ... ... has your public key, may also be encrypted. ... ... If you have any questions about this, please email, or call. ... ... ... ... Note, unknown calls likely will go to voicemail. ... ... Please leave a message if you get voicemail. ... .......................................................................
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