[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:31:21 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>On 08/03/17 08:14, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>> On 03/07/2017 05:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>>> I confirm that apulse-git works with Firefox 52.0-1 and an asoundrc
>>> isn't required :).  
>> 
>> Keep in mind that firefox 52.0-2 uses "ac_add_options --enable-alsa"
>> 
>> Carry on...
>>   
>
>Until firefox-54, which will return to pulse because it breaks alsa...

Reply to Eli:

I tested apulse from git with firefox 52.0-1 from extra, so apart from
the redirect typo, there's no mistake.

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 23:04:20 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> [rocketmouse at archlinux firefox]$ apulse firefox >/dev/null 1&>2
>>> [rocketmouse at archlinux firefox]$ pacman -Ql apulse-git 
>>> [snip]
>>> [rocketmouse at archlinux firefox]$ pacman -Q firefox
>>> firefox 52.0-1

_After_ testing apulse I upgraded to the version I build with
alsa-enabled.

>>> [rocketmouse at archlinux firefox]$ pacman -Q firefox
>>> firefox 52.0-2

Reply to Allan:

In the future I'll use apulse. Hopefully the AUR PKGBUILD then will
follow
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines#Git .

Regards,
Ralf