Sound dysfunctional (S15Pup32)

[Taylor]

I recently installed Puppy 32-bit. Some things do work (FireFox, TotalCommander via Wine, ...). But a major problem is sound. No sound in Firefox, and no sound in MPLAYER unless I use -ao sdl. Oddly sound input seems to work (via Wine). What's the problem and how to fix it? S15Pup32 built from 32-bit Slackware-15.0 components installed on HD.

[Taylor]

I succeeded to switch the default card from "HDMI" to "Intel PCH HDA" making the test sound in ALSA wizard work. But still no sound in Firefox.

[bigpup]

Are you using the Firefox that is provided here for S15Pup32?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... /browsers/

The firefox.sfs downloaded and loaded into the file system?

If no.

This is the Firefox you need to be using.

[ozsouth]

@Taylor - as this puppy uses alsa & firefox prefers pulseaudio, you need to run apulse emulator (in a terminal) to get sound in firefox:

apulse firefox

You can edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to automate this.

[Taylor]

Thanks.

> Are you using the Firefox that is provided here for S15Pup32?
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... /browsers

No. I use the one found by the package manager: mozilla-firefox-115.13.0esr-i686-1_slack15.0.txz 62'748'736

Anyway, in the meantime I found out that "pulseaudio" is the big villain.
If I uninstall "pulseaudio" then that FireFox works, but Wine doesn't.

> as this puppy uses alsa & firefox prefers pulseaudio, you need to run
> apulse emulator (in a terminal) to get sound in firefox:
> apulse firefox
> You can edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to automate this.

Should I now use "pulseaudio" or not? I want to have both FireFox and Wine
working, with both sound output and input.

Is there an alternative version of Wine available?

I'll try the suggestions provided above.

[rockedge]

@Taylor use apulse firefox to start the browser with sound.

It's a little bit of a workaround but works solidly and has the advantage that the system appears to be running pulseaudio for everything that looks for it plus the ALSA - pulseaudio adapter apulse squeezes the that bit of audio that links it all together.

I do have a system that is similar and WINE will produce sound when started with apulse wine. Might work .

[Taylor]

@rockedge

Thanks. I tested the tips listed above:
* the other Firefox https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... s/download works but still no sound, even if launched indirectly via "apulse"
* Wine does have sound (input and output) out of the box, but makes eveything else needing sound fail or crash

Is there a way to simply and termporarily disable the "pulseaudio" installed together with Wine, rather than painfully uninstalling and reinstalling it?