Native ALSA support

[alekksander]

could we have ALSA support in waterfox? regular firefox won't have it anymore

[grahamperrin]

No sound using ALSA and JACKD · Issue #224 · MrAlex94/Waterfox

[alekksander]

but will it stay in future versions?

also there is no sound if dmixer isn't turned on – no errors concerning audio. just no sound. it say's alsa in about:support, but other fields are empty. with dmix it works. no such problem with other browsers… any ideas how to bite it?

[hawkeye116477]

http://www.rosenauer.org/hg/mozilla/file/firefox58/mozilla-alsa-sandbox.patch

[Peacock365]

FIXED BY 6d9152b

[grahamperrin]

#538 (comment)

[jbeich]

@alekksander, probably wants --enable-alsa in .mozconfig for official binaries to have native ALSA support. One can set media.cubeb.backend pref to alsa or let Waterfox fallback from pulse:

https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/blob/67d2b0ee4c226f7d5c45093bed9b3c3832178b08/media/libcubeb/src/cubeb.c#L113-L129

[grahamperrin]

#538

[MrAlex94]

https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/blob/master/.mozconfig#L29

Am I missing something?

[alekksander]

still no sound for me (latest waterfox) if i don't use dmix (which i don't normally use)

[grahamperrin]

https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/blob/master/.mozconfig#L29

https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/blob/classic/.mozconfig#L36 at the time of writing – classic/, no longer master/