Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread Vikram Goyal
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:12:07AM -0700, don fisher wrote: > > My screen has UXGA resolution. When the system boots all I get is > scrambled lines from Fedora. After booting, I can start FVWM2, a > rather dumb but very fast window manager, that displays the full > 1200X1900 pixels correctly. So t

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:27:58 -0700 don fisher wrote: > How does this system know whether I > want to listen to my music or some junk add from firefox? Every app talking to pulseaudio can decide what to talk to, but (as far as I know) is supposed to use the default without an explicit override. I

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread don fisher
On 04/22/14 10:16, Tom Horsley wrote: This probably isn't your problem, but maybe it is related: Not too long ago I had sound disappear in a random collection of applications. Some could play sound, some couldn't. I finally tracked it down to my motherboard supporting two "sound cards" (actuall

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Horsley
This probably isn't your problem, but maybe it is related: Not too long ago I had sound disappear in a random collection of applications. Some could play sound, some couldn't. I finally tracked it down to my motherboard supporting two "sound cards" (actually built-in, but it showed up as two devi

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread don fisher
On 04/21/14 22:25, Vikram Goyal wrote: I also have a radeon card for which there is no proprietary driver support now. When I switched to FC 20 I got a horrible resolution of 800x600 or maybe lower than that. If that is the issue you are facing then let me know, I might be able to help you out.

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread don fisher
On 04/22/14 03:07, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 04/21/2014 07:31 PM, don fisher wrote: I find the segfault is rough to decode form the core dump. Is there something special I need to set up to prevent firefox from killing pulse? Please have mercy. It has been a couple of years since I posted. do

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/21/2014 07:31 PM, don fisher wrote: > > I find the segfault is rough to decode form the core dump. Is there > something special I need to set up to prevent firefox from killing pulse? > > Please have mercy. It has been a couple of years since I posted. does Chrome or Opera kill pulse?? maybe

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-21 Thread Vikram Goyal
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:31:29PM -0700, don fisher wrote: > When I boot my system I can play music etc. using Rhythmnbox. I also > can use the volume control. After running Firefox, the pulse > application is gone (pulseaudio --check returns a 1) and I am not > able to restart it. But the audio f

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-21 Thread don fisher
On 04/21/14 17:32, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/21/2014 05:14 PM, don fisher wrote: I am running Fc16. I have been afraid to upgrade due to the limited support for my video card. I am not trying to restart pulseaudio. I did try after the system failed, but pulseaudio would not restart. I have noticed t

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/21/2014 05:14 PM, don fisher wrote: I am running Fc16. I have been afraid to upgrade due to the limited support for my video card. I am not trying to restart pulseaudio. I did try after the system failed, but pulseaudio would not restart. I have noticed that when my screen blanks audio paus

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-21 Thread don fisher
On 04/21/14 16:38, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/21/2014 04:31 PM, don fisher wrote: I find the segfault is rough to decode form the core dump. Is there something special I need to set up to prevent firefox from killing pulse? Two things we'll need to know: what version of Fedora are you running and h

Re: Problem with sound and Firefox

2014-04-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/21/2014 04:31 PM, don fisher wrote: I find the segfault is rough to decode form the core dump. Is there something special I need to set up to prevent firefox from killing pulse? Two things we'll need to know: what version of Fedora are you running and how are you trying to re-start pulse