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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.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

@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 .

@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?