Re: Firefox 140.6.0 --- no sound

"Bruce Dubbs" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:05:50 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.support
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On 12/21/25 7:51 PM, Andrew Warshall ([email protected] via blfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> Hi-
> 
>     Just did my roughly-annual (B)LFS reinstall and Firefox (compiled
>     with ALSA) won't play sound. ALSA itself is working, since mpg123
>     plays fine. But, when I attempt to play a video with sound in
>     Firefox, I get errors like:
> 
> ALSA lib pcm.c:8865:(snd_pcm_set_params) [error.pcm] Sample format not
> available for PLAYBACK: Invalid argument
> 
>     This seems to be saying that there's an audio codec missing; but not
>     sure I should believe that. And, if I should, any way to track down
>     what it is?

What version of alsa-lib/alsa-util are you using?  There was an upstream problem and 
we just updated those packages to version 1.2.15.1 to fix a non-sound problem.

   -- Bruce

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